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RFC 6381, "The 'Codecs' and 'Profiles' Parameters for "Bucket" Media Types", August 2011

Source of RFC: IETF - NON WORKING GROUP
Area Assignment: app

Errata ID: 5473
Status: Reported
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Peter Occil
Date Reported: 2018-08-20

Section 3.2 says:

   The 'codecs' parameter takes either of two forms.  The first form is
   used when the value does not contain any octets that require
   encoding.  The second form uses [RFC2231] to allow arbitrary octets
   to be encoded.  With either form, quotes allow for commas and other
   characters in <tspecials> (quotes MAY be used even when not
   required).

 [...]

   The BNF syntax is as follows:

 [...]

      fancy-list  := DQUOTE [charset] "'" [language] "'" id-list DQUOTE
                  ; Parsers MAY ignore <language>
                  ; Parsers MAY support only US-ASCII and UTF-8

It should say:

   The 'codecs' parameter takes either of two forms.  The first form is
   used when the value does not contain any octets that require
   encoding.  The second form uses [RFC2231] to allow arbitrary octets
   to be encoded.  With the first form only, quotes allow for commas and other
   characters in <tspecials> (quotes MAY be used even when not
   required).

 [...]

   The BNF syntax is as follows:

 [...]

      fancy-list  := [charset] "'" [language] "'" fancy-id-list
                  ; Parsers MAY ignore <language>
                  ; Parsers MAY support only US-ASCII and UTF-8
      fancy-id-list     := id-encoded *( "%2c" id-encoded )


Notes:

RFC 6381's definition of "codecs" (and "profiles") conflicts with the generic syntax for RFC 2231 section 4 character set and language information. Notably, RFC 2231 (which changes the syntax in RFC 2045 in a manner relevant here) disallows quoted strings as the attribute value if a parameter name ends with an asterisk (see the productions "extended-initial-value" and "extended-other-values" in RFC 2231). Thus, for example, the example

codecs*="''%25%20xz, gork"

is ill-formed under RFC 2231, since it uses a quoted-string in a parameter name ending in "*".

This erratum shows the correction only in section 3.1, but conforming corrections may need to be made elsewhere in the document.

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