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Bug 6300 - [references] reference RFC 5322 instead of RFC 2822
Summary: [references] reference RFC 5322 instead of RFC 2822
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P5 trivial
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2008-12-11 08:49 UTC by Michael[tm] Smith
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:31 UTC (History)
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Description Michael[tm] Smith 2008-12-11 08:49:46 UTC
The HTML5 draft currently references RFC 2822 in order to define what a "valid e-mail address" is.

"A valid e-mail address is a string that matches the production dot-atom "@" dot-atom where dot-atom is defined in RFC 2822 section 3.2.4, excluding the CFWS production everywhere. [RFC2822]".

A newer RFC, RFC 5322, is intended to obsolete RFC 2822.
The "dot-atom" production seems to be define identically in RFC 5322 and RFC 2822:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#section-3.2.4
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.2.3

Also, just for the record, some notes about why the HTML5 draft doesn't just reference the "addr-spec" production instead of dot-atom "@" dot-atom:

<Hixie> addr-spec doesn't match user expectations
<Hixie> e.g. iirc something like this matches addr-spec:    "foo" (bar) @ foo.com
<Hixie> meaning foo@foo.com
<Hixie> and then you can start introducing escapes and all kinds of stuff
Comment 1 Julian Reschke 2008-12-30 16:08:20 UTC
"A newer RFC, RFC 5322, is intended to obsolete RFC 2822."

Nit: it *does* obsolete RFC2822.
Comment 2 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-03-14 13:16:01 UTC
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