From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754352AbZHCVDw (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2009 17:03:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753985AbZHCVDv (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2009 17:03:51 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34259 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753601AbZHCVDt (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2009 17:03:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4A77509A.3010401@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:03:22 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090513 Fedora/3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Bottomley CC: Joe Perches , Andrew Morton , LKML Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS: standardize James Bottomley's name References: <1249331570.5149.48.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <1249332233.3943.211.camel@mulgrave.site> In-Reply-To: <1249332233.3943.211.camel@mulgrave.site> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/03/2009 01:43 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 13:32 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: >> His recent patches and sign-offs have not used "E.J." >> >> This reduces the likelihood that get_maintainers.pl will >> list his address twice. > > It is standard: I like my initials; which, per RFC requires the quotes > because it's a mailing address. > It's not actually required by RFC 2822. The relevant productions are: name-addr = [display-name] angle-addr display-name = phrase phrase = 1*word / obs-phrase obs-phrase = word *(word / "." / CFWS) Now, obs- usually indicates an obsolete (deprecated backwards-compatibility) production, but the text states: Note: The "period" (or "full stop") character (".") in obs-phrase is not a form that was allowed in earlier versions of this or any other standard. Period (nor any other character from specials) was not allowed in phrase because it introduced a parsing difficulty distinguishing between phrases and portions of an addr-spec (see section 4.4). It appears here because the period character is currently used in many messages in the display-name portion of addresses, especially for initials in names, and therefore must be interpreted properly. In the future, period may appear in the regular syntax of phrase. -hpa