ietf-nntp re: batch, streaming, Adding extensions?

[Stan Barber]

> re: nntp v2 specification, I am mystified as to why the 'batch' 
> command has been added instead of the reasonably widely accepted 
> and easy to implement 'takethis/check' protocol.   Or are both going
> to be implemented?

Please cite your reference. I am unaware of any published V2 spec other 
than the one from the working group that existed at the beginning of the
decade. I am sure that spec will influence what is done by this group, but
it is not the output of work of the current working group. In any case, 
when that spec was published, there was no "takethis/check" protocol. 
If you can point out two distinct publically available implementations 
that implement this, I'd be delighted.

> re: mechanism for adding extensions:
>        Has this been defined anywhere, it is mentioned in several 
> places but I couldn't find a proposal for it.  I would suggest we 
> need to get this defined in a hurry, so that those who want / need 
> extensions urgently can start doing it the right way rather than just 
> adding them willy nilly.

This will be defined in the draft document that will be published 
later this month. It will be based on the work from RFC 1869.

 
> We have at least three extensions that we will be releasing in the 
> next month and it would be nice to try and get them to match in with
> the proposed standards.  I will discuss these in this group if this 
> is  the appropriate place, but I suspect it is not at this time.

There is an nntp-extensions mailing list for these discussions. It has been
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