[ietf-nntp] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-nntpext-authinfo-00.txt

[Ken Murchison]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>Section 2#4: you can't enforce that MUST NOT, because the client might
>>not have done a LIST EXTENSIONS. Rather, if the server doesn't support
>>any AUTHINFO commands then AUTHINFO should return 500. But it's not
>>clear to me what "complies to this draft" means if neither form is
>>supported.
> 
> 
> Agreed.

I believe that what 2#4 is saying (Jeff wrote this text AFAIR) that if 
client receives the AUTHINFO capability with no args (meaning that it 
*did* send LIST EXTENSIONS), it must not ignore the results and attempt 
AUTHINFO anyways.

In any case, I changed the MUST NOT to SHOULD NOT.

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