start parameter of mutlipart/related ... addr-spec syntax in RFC822

[Jesus M. Salvo Jr.]

RFC 2387 ( Section 3.4 ) says that the start parameter of a multipart/related is msg-id based on RFC 822

RFC 822 on the other hand says that msg-id's syntax is based on addr-spec:

Section 4.1:
msg-id = "<" addr-spec ">" ; Unique message id

Section 6:
addr-spec = local-part "@" domain ; global address

My question therefore is:
Apache-SOAP, when specifying the start parameter of the multipart-related, does not not strictly follow the syntax for addr-spec ( e.g.: No "@" domain ).
Is this important / relevant? If not ... why did RFC 822 says that addr-spec ( and therefore msg-id and start parameter for multipart/related ) should have local-part@domain?

The example below shows that the start parameter has the value 4035210.1042701018008.apache-soap.johnp4.
Here is the sample taken from a sniffer:


POST /soap/servlet/messagerouter HTTP/1.0
Host: 192.168.0.82:8080
Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_Part_1_64111.1042701017867"; type="text/xml"; start="4035210.1042701018008.apache-soap.johnp4"
Content-Length: 1754
SOAPAction: ""

------=_Part_1_64111.1042701017867
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-ID: <4035210.1042701018008.apache-soap.johnp4>
Content-Length: 1170

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