I absolutely agree to your point, but here we need to decide its handling
incase we get this format from network

Would it be reasonable to ignore/drop a response *just because* the
Reason-Phrase is a quoted string?
How do other commercial or widely used stacks handles this?

Thanks for your prompt & close to absolute reply. :)

Regards,
Harbhanu
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Balashov [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 12:12 PM
To: Harbhanu
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Sip-implementors] regarding Reason-Phrase


On Jun 9, 2010, at 2:10 AM, Harbhanu <[email protected]> wrote:

> AFAIK as per the ABNF the same is not allowed, but I am at loss to
> understand the rationale behind it.

I am at a loss to understand the rationale FOR it.  The ABNF is  
conservative; it takes an active rule to allow something, but merely  
the passive absence of a rule to prohibit it. Why would you want to  
fill the ABNF with junk like "the same?"

The purpose of quoting or otherwise bracketing particles in grammars  
has always been to characterise the quoted string as a single token to  
the parser something that would, by default, be treated as a series of  
multiple tokens, as would be the case here in a whitespace-delimeted  
syntax.

Since the reason phrase is the last element of the first line of a  
reply, it can go on indefinitely until EOL without any additional  
syntactical information. 
  

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