Re: Last Call: draft-farrel-rtg-common-bnf (Reduced Backus-Naur Form(RBNF) A Syntax Used in Various Protocol Specification toProposed Standard

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--On Friday, February 06, 2009 13:55 +0100 "Tom.Petch"
<sisyphus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>...
> I think too that there is a third issue, of a better name than
> RBNF.  John clearly showed that this I-D is not reduced.
> Historic? Deprecated? Limited_applicability? Variant?
> Simplified?

"simplified" has the same problem as "reduced", unless one
argues that one simplifies a metalanguage by adding more
operators.  "Variant" would work for me, and this actually is
much more of a variation on classic BNF (or ISO Extended BNF)
than ABNF is.

     john





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