ietf-nntp CHARSET isues with new draft.

Nat Ballou NatBa at ims.microsoft.com
Fri Sep 5 11:45:48 PDT 1997


I may have missed the discussion on this, but here goes ...

The CHARSET command in Stan's latest draft seems a bit
backwards.  The draft describes a CHARSET command that
clients issue the charset they want to use, and servers come 
back with yes/no type response.

Seems like a negotation model would work better.  That is,
The server returns a list of supported charsets, and the client
can try to pick the best one.  I used this type of model in one
of my earlier search drafts.

Comments?

Nat





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