Re: [Dime] comment on ABNFs in 3588bis

["Glen Zorn" <glenzorn at comcast.net>]

On a related but more general note: is are the ABNF definitions really
useful?  From the traffic on this list, it seems that they cause more
trouble than anything else...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dime-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:dime-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> lionel.morand at orange-ftgroup.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 2:04 AM
> To: jouni.korhonen at iki.fi; dime at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Dime] comment on ABNFs in 3588bis
> 
> Ok with that. The "min" must be equal to 1 for Required AVP.
> 
> By the way, about the given example, is it really possible to have
> multiple Origin-host AVP in the same request, according to the
> definition of the Origin-host AVP?
> 
> on the same topic, is it possible to have several occurrences of a
> fixed AVP? If not,
> 
> either another note should be added to state that: "If an fixed rule
> has a qualifier, then the value of min and max MUST be 1."
> 
> Or remove the [qual] before "<" avp-spec ">" to have: Fixed = [qual]
> "<" avp-spec ">"
> 
> Lionel
> 
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : dime-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:dime-bounces at ietf.org] De
> > la part de Jouni Korhonen
> > Envoyé : mercredi 8 octobre 2008 20:37
> > À : dime at ietf.org
> > Objet : Re: [Dime] comment on ABNFs in 3588bis
> >
> > A copy'n'paste typo. meant:
> >
> >    "If a required rule has a qualifier, then the value of min
> > MUST be 1."
> >
> > Jouni
> >
> >
> > On Oct 8, 2008, at 9:29 PM, Jouni Korhonen wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > The -12 revision of 3588bis still allows and actually gives
> > an example
> > > of using "* { AVP }", which in my opinion does not make
> > sense. Should
> > > we add a note under section 3.2 qual description stating
> > that "* { AVP
> > > }" is not possible based on the description of a required
> > AVP? I would
> > > add the following text to qual description:
> > >
> > >   "If a required rule has a qualifier, then the value of min
> > >    MUST be 1 if present."
> > >
> > > If the above is acceptable, then we need to fix the example
> > following
> > > the ABNF definitions:
> > >
> > >    The following is a definition of a fictitious command code:
> > >
> > >    Example-Request ::= < Diameter Header: 9999999, REQ, PXY >
> > >                        { User-Name }
> > >                      * { Origin-Host }
> > >                    ^^^^
> > >                      * [ AVP ]
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > 	Jouni
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