ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers - draft 3

[Ade Lovett]

Jack De Winter writes:
>
>Any ideas on something similar?  And how do we get around the backfill
>problem with parallel feeds to a single group?  We have to handle it
>in some way that everyone likes. (My personal feeling is to restrict
>the number of threads that can feed a newsgroup in this situation.)

Master/Slave replication, especially on large scales, brings up a
whole can of specialised worms.

My own opinion is that such replication is sufficiently specialised
to warrant its own protocol, rather than using stripped-down nntp
servers, Xref: header processing, variations on XREPLIC, or any one
of a multitude of other local pieces of code.

Would it not make sense to set up some kind of investigative group,
outside of the actual NNTP WG (though I would imagine that there would
be a great deal of overlap in the membership), to deal with those
issues particular to master/slave replication?

-aDe

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Ade Lovett, Demon Internet Ltd.