Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ldapbis-url-03.txt

[mcs@netscape.com (Mark C Smith)]

The changes made for this -03 revision are listed in Appendix B of the 
I-D. I am posting them here for your convenience. Review of the revised 
ABNF would be especially helpful.

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15.1.  Technical Changes

   "URL Definition" section: revised all of the ABNF to use common
   productions from [Models] and added note and references to [RFC2732]
   to allow literal IPv6 addresses inside the hostport portion of the
   URL.


15.2.  Editorial Changes

   "Status of this Memo" section: updated boilerplate to match current
   I-D guidelines.

   "URL Definition" section: replaced misleading phrase "MAY define
   other extensions" with "MAY define one or more extensions" (this
   document no longer defines any extensions). Rewrote the last
   paragraph of this section to more clearly describe the escaping rules
   and to reference [RFC2396] accurately.

   "Examples" section: added an example that demonstrates the
   interaction between DN escaping and URL escaping and clarified the
   text that introduces the LDAP filter escaping interaction example.

   "Acknowledgements" section: added Hallvard Furuseth.

   "Normative References" section: added a reference to [RFC2732].

   "Informative References" section: added for clarity.

   Copyright: updated the year to 2003.

   "Authors' Address" section: updated Tim's contact information.

   Appendix A: added an older editorial change that was accidently
   overlooked (Changed document title to include "LDAP:" prefix).
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-Mark


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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the LDAP (v3) Revision Working Group of the IETF.
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> 	Title		: LDAP: Uniform Resource Locator
> 	Author(s)	: M. Smith, T. Howes
> 	Filename	: draft-ietf-ldapbis-url-03.txt
> 	Pages		: 13
> 	Date		: 2003-3-4
> 	
> This document describes a format for an LDAP Uniform Resource Locator
> (URL).  An LDAP URL describes an LDAP search operation that is used
> to retrieve information from an LDAP directory, or, in the context of
> an LDAPv3 referral or reference, an LDAP URL describes a service
> where an LDAP operation may be progressed.
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