ietf-nntp editorial comments on base-04

[Brian Hernacki]

Maurizio Codogno wrote:
>
> Sect. 12.3, NEWGROUPS. I agree that clients MUST use 4-digit year
> representation, but anyway we should say what to do if the client is not
> conformant. My personal wording should be as follows:
> 
> - if the first two digits of the year are not specified, the year is to be
> taken from the past, unless the year is the  current.

In the case of 2-digit years, we should act as in RFC977 and assume
closest century.

--brian
Opinions are mine, not Netscape's