John C Klensin wrote: > hypothesize that, at some point, an RFC 2606bis might be created > (and go through the consensus process to BCP) that offers special > reserved names for newsgroups or mailing lists as well as domain > names JFTR, with respect to newsgroups that is already specified in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-12#section-3.1.4 | The following <newsgroup-name>s are reserved and MUST NOT be used as | the name of a newsgroup: | | o Groups whose first (or only) <component> is "example" The (unnumbered) NetNews standard does not go into details for which purpose the "example"-names are reserved, but I think it is obvious. The plan was to discuss such details in a separate NetNews BCP later if needed. > a reasonable reader might have trouble figuring out whether > the footnote/reference anchor was part of the IMAP syntax > and example or not. +1 A consistent footnote style can be fine in Web pages, PDFs, and similar document formats, but it is unsuited for the ASCII text/plain xml2rfc output format(s). In the case of ABNF a single space could turn a clear concept into incomprehensible gibberish if the RFC line length limits don't agree with adding this space. Frank _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf