Darren,

that's why I take your comment not seriously: 

> > data for that field.
> > 
> > If you don't understand the difference here, I think the fields need
> > to be defined something like this:
> > 
> > field ::= missing | non-dash | PRINTUSASCII*1 PRINTUSASCII*255
> > missing ::= "-"
> 
> And as someone else pointed out to me, PRINTUSASCII includes the space
> charactr (0x20), which is used as the field delimeter.  This needs to
> be fixed too.

If you would look at the ABNF, you would find

PRINTUSASCII    = %d33-126

This is the problem with your comments: you claim things while at the
same time you show that you are uninformed (at best). I believe in peer
review, not in peer rumor... I assign peers some credibility and yours
has gotten quite low over time. It's my personal judgement, but again I
am stating everything honestly on-list so that others thinking your way
can add their comments, which would obviously increase their weight. I
guess that's common sense and not just "my party" ;)  [but I have to
admit that I personally do not care about what you think about me and
"my party"].

As another technical comment, "-" for me is proper field content. It is
just a special value which indicates a void value and these semantics
are clearly described in the text. I have to admit I do not know any way
how I could add such semantics to the grammer - your grammer above does
the same as my grammer with the exception that it is more verbose. The
resulting parser will be the same (because you obviously allow "-" by
'missing | ...').

On the HOSTNAME, I am refering to STD 13, which I consider to be
sufficient. Take note that IP V6 representations must be allowed.

So all in all, I do not see any need for change (maybe the name
PRINTUSASCII, as it seems to be confusing to people not involved with
the work - no, not (just) kidding, this might actually be an issue).

Rainer

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