ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers - draft 3

[Jon Ribbens]

Alan Barrett wrote:
> This effectively declares that feeds between master and slave news servers
> (where the slaves want to use the same article numbers as the master) may
> not use any parallelism.  (If several articles can be transferred in
> parallel, then I believe that there's no way to guarantee that articles
> will never arrive at the slave out of order).  I still maintain that
> prohibiting such parallelism is an undue burden on implementations.
> 
> I could be satisfied if the spec explicitly catered for master/slave
> configurations by saying that the master must assign article numbers in
> order of arrival, but the slave may receive articles from the master out
> of order and clients should be able to cope with that.

You might want them to, but unfortunately they can't. So the spec
can't dictate that they must.

Cheers


Jon
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