The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Routing Backus-Naur Form (RBNF) : A Syntax Used to Form Encoding Rules in Various Routing Protocol Specifications ' <draft-farrel-rtg-common-bnf-09.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Ross Callon. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-farrel-rtg-common-bnf-09.txt Technical Summary Several protocols have been specified in the Routing Area of the IETF using a common variant of the Backus-Naur Form (BNF) of representing message syntax. However, there is no formal definition of this version of BNF. This document provides a formal definition of the variant of BNF that has been used (that we call Reduced BNF), and makes it available for use by new protocols. Working Group Summary This is an individual submission with AD sponsorship. It was presented to the routing area open meeting. A couple of people questioned whether this was needed at all, but no one objected to the content. The IETF last call was flagged to the CCAMP, MPLS, PCE and TSVWG WGs, and to the routing-discussion email list. Document Quality Multiple existing routing area specifications use the subset of BNF defined in this document. Personnel Ross Callon is the sponsoring AD. Adrian Farrel is the author, and has been shepherding this document through the various reviews. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
