New Last Call: 'Tags for Identifying Languages' to BCP

Randy Presuhn randy_presuhn at mindspring.com
Tue Dec 14 22:43:52 CET 2004


Hi -

> From: "Doug Ewell" <dewell at adelphia.net>
> To: <ietf-languages at alvestrand.no>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 1:01 PM
> Subject: Re: New Last Call: 'Tags for Identifying Languages' to BCP
...
> It's not a matter of putting the ABNF on a lower footing than the prose.
> They work together.  They have to.
...

That's not *quite* the spin the IESG has put on it.  See
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/STATEMENTS/pseudo-code-in-specs.txt
where they write "We therefore expect that people will continue using
English to describe protocols, with formal languages as a supporting
mechanism."

Randy





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