Re: linux-ipsec: syntax conventions, part 1

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| From: Henry Spencer <henry%spenford@zoo.toronto.edu>

| Flags fields with more than one bit set are written with the flag names

Comma "feels" not quite right to me. If it were using set notation

        {cat, dog}
that would be OK, but a "top level" comma seems as if it should be a low priority operator. I think "+" might work well.

| White space after commas is ignored on input;

Since this syntax is meant for shell-parsed command arguments and for files, spaces are funny things.

| Tuples

I'd like to see some example uses. It seems to me that a sequence of tokens is naturally a tupple. Some form of delimiter might be required, but I don't know the syntactic context you imagine for these.

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| Wildcards

"*" is easier to see than "any". Perhaps it should be allowed as a synonym.

| The IPSEC drafts use "opaque" in some places to refer to values that are

Let's change the drafts :-)

| From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>

| And in particular, the conventions we use should match traditional

Remember that an important use will be in non-script files. The - --keyword notation isn't pretty in that context.

| > Codes (enumerations selecting, e.g., encryption algorithms) and flags

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Matching the names in the standards would seem best.

| From: Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.net>

| The only thing which full, dotted-quad syntax for

I suspect that this is mandated.

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