Hi Ulrich,

I suggest rejecting this errata.

First, changing PRINTASCII to %d32-126 would allow SP characters in HOSTNAME, APP-NAME, PROCID, and MSGID, which goes against conventions. That can be corrected in the aBNF, but it would then get messy to "except SP" from each of those.

Second, iirc it was discussed in the WG and we wanted to keep it there for emphasis. This is depicted several times in the examples. While this discussion occurred after the RFC was published, I believe it reflects the consensus of the WG while the document was an ID under discussion:

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/syslog/_CeLGoDEivIPfsH5on9SbUioU3Y/

Regards,

Chris

On 4/7/22 5:12 AM, RFC Errata System wrote:
The following errata report has been submitted for RFC5424,
"The Syslog Protocol".

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You may review the report below and at:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid6927

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Ulrich Windl <[email protected]>

Section: 6

Original Text
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SD-NAME         = 1*32PRINTUSASCII
                   ; except '=', SP, ']', %d34 (")
...

PRINTUSASCII    = %d33-126

Corrected Text
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SD-NAME         = 1*32PRINTUSASCII
                   ; except '=', SP, ']', %d34 (")
...
PRINTUSASCII    = %d32-126

Notes
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When excluding SP %d32 from PRINTUSASCII, then it does not make sense to state 
"except ..SP .."
There are more issues with the grammar:
SD_NAME forbids ']', but it should also forbid '['

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RFC5424 (draft-ietf-syslog-protocol-23)
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Title               : The Syslog Protocol
Publication Date    : March 2009
Author(s)           : R. Gerhards
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : Security Issues in Network Event Logging
Area                : Security
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG

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