On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:04:54AM -0400, Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 48 lines which said: > Having a more formal description of state machines is a natural next > step from having, say, a good syntax description in ABNF. > Unfortunately, unlike ABNF, none of these (except SDL) have a long- > term stable reference. If we worry about PDF not being around for > future RFC readers, I am a bit more worried about the authors of a > SourceForge volunteer project finding other things to do. > Thus, I think the first step would have to be to define a (subset) > of a suitable language as an IETF-stable document, You are absolutely right and here is my first attempt: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bortzmeyer-language-state-machines-00.txt See also http://www.cosmogol.fr/ if you want the HTML version. Comments, flames, criticisms, patches, suggestions and running code are highly appreciated. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf