Re: [Ltru] Re: Case-insensitive rules (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis-01.txt)

[Addison Phillips <addison at yahoo-inc.com>]

It seems reasonable to change it, provided we give sufficient text 
explaining it. I have made the changes in the editor's copy, which I 
should have posted shortly (but not today).

Addison

Doug Ewell wrote:
> Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic dot fr> wrote:
>
> > > At some point during the development of 4646, somebody argued that 
> > > both cases needed to be specified.
> >
> > He was clearly wrong. (But I sympathetize, I made the same mistake at 
> > the beginning.)
>
> I wonder if anyone can find the thread on this list, many months ago, 
> where someone argued that we had to specify both cases explicitly.  Our 
> original ABNF assumed case insensitivity.  I'd hate to go through the 
> process all over again of changing it, changing it back, etc.
>
> > > Can you find an RFC that states unequivocally that ABNF strings are 
> > > case-insensitive?
> >
> > Besides the good reference given by John Cowan, I would like to add 
> > that RFC which do want case-sensitivity have to use numeric values. 
> > See for instance how RFC 4627 describes the string "false" (lowercase 
> > only):
> >
> >        false = %x66.61.6c.73.65   ; false
> >
> > I may add that every ABNF implementation I know of treats strings in a 
> > case-insensitive way (as required by the RFC).
>
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Addison Phillips
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It is not a feature.

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