RE: ISO 8601

[Frank Dawson <fdawson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris:

Then why don't we work to refine the ABNF in -calsch-csct-00.txt?

The grammar in some of the IETF standards resolve down to productions with comments like:

	foo = <Any ASCII character.>

So, what did you have in mind?

- - Frank

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From: 	Chris Newman[SMTP:Chris.Newman@innosoft.com]
Sent: 	Friday, December 06, 1996 8:13 AM
To: 	IETF calsch WG
Subject: 	ISO 8601

Innosoft just received a copy of ISO 8601 (1988) today.

This is a rather poorly written "standard".  It contains no formal grammar
-- it simply defines by example.  For this reason, I will oppose IETF
standardization of any document with a normative reference to ISO 8601.

I have no objections to using a profile of ISO 8601, as long as complete
formal grammar for the profile is included in the specification.  The
formal grammar in draft-ietf-calsch-csct-00.txt isn't precise enough yet,
IMHO.