Mark Crispin wrote:

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Ken Murchison wrote:

What is the meaning of BINARY[]?


I think that it should be a syntax error, but unfortunately the
section-binary rule in RFC 3516 is:
   section-binary =   "[" [section-part] "]"
instead of:
   section-binary =   "[" section-part "]"

I consider this to be a bug in RFC 3516.  If it intended to make BINARY[]
valid, it should have used the RFC 3501 "section" rule.

I agree. The semantics of what BINARY[] should do is definitely vague, and if its the same as BODY[], why bother?


Obviously, section-msgtext doesn't make much sense with BINARY, and I think the same applies to BINARY[].

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