Re: Yet another Path ABNF (was: #1132: Allowing IP addresses as path-identiites - Poll result)

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <432F6B4F.358F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Frank Ellermann <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Charles Lindsey wrote:

>> OK, I've put that into my syntax proposal.

>Oops, careful, it was wrong, I forgot the critical hyphens for
>labels like 12-A--3.  A bit like <id-special> aka <mqspecial>:

>   toplabel = [label *( "-" )] ALPHA [*( "-" ) label]

OK, I now have that.


>> Eh? There is no proposal anywhere to allow "_" in FQDNs.

>Harald mumbled something in that direction, and you refused for
>months to kill the underscores in non-<bareword>s:

> <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.usenet.format/30046>
>|> Like Charles you also have an "_" in the <path-identity> for
>|> the non-<bareword> case.

Eh? In all my proposed syntaxes, AFAIR, the "_" was only in the <bareword>
within the <path-identity> (which it still is).

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