ietf-nntp Backfill
Clive D.W. Feather
Clive at on-the-train.demon.co.uk
Sat Dec 14 16:14:19 PST 1996
Rich Salz <rsalz at osf.org> writes
>Jon Ribbens wrote a very nice note. Article numbers should be considered
>unique resources, never to be re-used unless there is a "change in epoch"
>which requires out-of-band coordination between client and server.
Unique resources, I certainly agree with. My original note relates to
the question of whether articles are ordered - as a thought experiment,
would the following conform to 977 and, if not, why not ?
- Articles never expire.
- Articles are given numbers at random.
Or, for that matter:
- Articles are numbered uniquely across the entire newsbase (with an
article having the same number in every group it appears in).
- Articles are numbered sequentially as they arrive from 1.
I see nothing stating that article numbers must be less than (say) 2^32.
These sort of questions need answering in the production of 977bis.
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