- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 21:29:21 PST
- To: elevinso@Accurate.COM
- Cc: elevinso@Accurate.COM, uri@bunyip.com, ietf-822@list.cren.net
> where id-spec is a restricted form of "addr-spec" as defined > in [RFC822] and hostname and uchar are defined in [RFC1738, > sec 3.1]. The purpose of the restriction on addr-spec is to > eliminate special characters from the cid URL. Such > characters, if required, can be encoded using the [RFC1738] > %xx hex encoding escape mechanism included in uchar. This still seems awkward. The problem is that the RFC 822 productions allow unsafe characters in all parts of the IDs, and have special quoting and bracketing rules. You really have two choices: one is to include the full production for id-spec in parallel with the production of addr-spec in RFC 822, but then allow (%hex)-encoding of the individual terminal elements, or else just to define id-spec to be (%hex)-encoded addr-spec, and leave out the id-spec = local-part "@" hostname production completely. Why NOT allow "@" to be URL-encoded, too? These things aren't really going to be parsed.
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