Re: [Pana] IESG Review of protocol and framework documents

[Yoshihiro Ohba <yohba at tari.toshiba.com>]

OK.  We will add explicit rules for white spaceing and line breaks in
the language definition.

Thank you very much,
Yoshihiro Ohba



On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:08:07PM +0200, Magnus Westerlund wrote:
> Yoshihiro Ohba skrev:
> > Thank you for your response.
> > 
> > I see what you mean.  
> > 
> > As you pointed out, the defined language itself is not really ABNF (I
> > apologize that my statement in my previous email was incorrect.)
> > 
> > So the correct statement should be that the language used in sections
> > 7.1 through 7.7 is defined in section 7 using ABNF (that is why the
> > defined language contains "::=" while ABNF does not.)
> > 
> > So the third paragraph in Section 7 should be revised 
> > 
> > from:
> > 
> > "
> >    PANA message definitions include a corresponding ABNF [RFC4234]
> >    specification, which is used to define the AVPs for that PANA message
> >    type, and whether or not each AVP is Mandatory.  The following format
> >    is used in the definition:
> > "
> > 
> > to:
> > 
> > "
> >    The language used for PANA message definitions (i.e., AVPs for that
> >    PANA message type, and whether or not each AVP is Mandatory) in
> >    Sections 7.1 through 7.7 is defined using ABNF [RFC4234] as
> >    follows:
> > "
> 
> I didn't fully understand what you attempted to do. However, I think
> there are still some flaws in the definition of the language used in
> section 7.1-7.7.
> 
> The white spaceing rules are missing. you have nothing thatindicates
> that for example "[  EAP-Payload ]" is allowed, while  [EAP-Payload]
> would. Also line breaks need to be handled.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Magnus Westerlund
> 
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