ietf-nntp Issues List version 3

[Charles Lindsey]

In local.nntp ob at owlman.academ.com (Stan Barber) wrote:

>Topics for Discussion concerning "draft-ietf-nntpext-base-03.txt"

Since I am in the process of drafting some of the relevant texts for the
grandson-0f-1036, I can give you a few pointers on some of these (whether
my texts gets accepted is another matter of course - our drafting process
is at a much earlier stage than yours).

>UTF-8, keyword and verbs
>	The current draft advocates UTF-8 only be used for arguments
>	in commands (not keywords or verbs). Is this the right thing to do?
>	If not, what is the right thing to do? Is the current draft clear on
>	this? If not, suggest some alternate text to make this clearer.

My text will say that header-names (i.e. the keyword of a header line)
MUST be in ASCII.

>UTF-8 and responses
>	In the responses where a fixed format is required (like ARTICLE,
>	BODY, HEAD, and STAT), should the default be US-ASCII or UTF-8?
>	[Right now, I think this is not a problem and perhaps we should
>	just defer it until message-ids starting having 8 bit contents.]
>	What about other responses? 

Message-IDs will still be in strict ASCII. This will remain so until such
time as IETF decides to permit non-ASCII in domain names. When that
happens, there will be such a grand upheaval throughout everything that
anything we may say about it now will be totally inundated. In other
words, forget it.


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