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Re: [Ltru] par 3 of 2.2, "identification of subtag's type" (was Additional issues with 4646bis raised by an Apps Review Team review)



Kent Karlsson wrote:
    ... Replacing (DIGIT 3alphanum) by (DIGIT 3*7alphanum) would just
introduce needless ambiguity in the grammar.
s/ambiguity/redundancy/

That said, Kent's response was spot-on. Everything that needs to be covered in the existing production is covered. If it were really desirable to remove the subtlety/cleverness in the ABNF, and **I DO NOT PROPOSE CHANGING ANYTHING HERE**, the solution CE was thinking of might have looked like this:

variant       = ALPHA 4*7alphanum         ; registered variants
            / (DIGIT 3*7alphanum)
With my individual contributor hat on: IMHO, I think this variant is more readable.


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