The Augmented Backus-Naur form (ABNF) extends the
Backus-Naur form. It is documented in
RFC 2234 (
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2234.html), and often serves for the definition of
IETF communication
protocols, such as
SIP.
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