Fwd: New mailing list: language for IETF state machines

FYI 

Lisa

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>

Date: January 5, 2007 12:25:32 PM PST

To: ietf@xxxxxxxx

Subject: New mailing list: language for IETF state machines

While IETF has a formal standardized language to describe grammars

(ABNF, in RFC 4234), it has no language to describe state machines,

leaving authors to use tables or list of transitions or ASCII-art

(which leads some people to ask for a "richer" format for RFCs).

I believe it would be a good idea to have such a language (see

http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg42592.html for a

rationale) so I wrote an Internet-draft

(draft-bortzmeyer-language-state-machines-01.txt) describing a

candidate, Cosmogol (further documented in http://www.cosmogol.fr/).

There is now a mailing list, to see if there is sufficient interest

for the IETF to go on, have a BoF in Prague, may be create a Working

Group, etc:

cosmogol@xxxxxxxx

https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/cosmogol

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