I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-nntpext-base-06.txt

[Stan O. Barber]

Yes, this is the draft before the last IETF. The IETF Internet Drafts folks
didn't post it as they should have and folks wanted to see it in the
Internet Drafts area. It is now there. The next draft will be out next week
(I hope).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ietf-nntp at academ.com [mailto:owner-ietf-nntp at academ.com]On
> Behalf Of Charles Lindsey
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 1998 6:01 AM
> Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-nntpext-base-06.txt
>
>
> In <199811031516.KAA18829 at ietf.org> Internet-Drafts at ietf.org writes:
>
> >--NextPart
>
> >A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line
> Internet-Drafts directories.
> >This draft is a work item of the NNTP Extensions Working Group
> of the IETF.
>
> >	Title		: Network News Transport Protocol
> >	Author(s)	: S. Barber
> >	Filename	: draft-ietf-nntpext-base-06.txt
> >	Pages		: 36
> >	Date		: 02-Nov-98
> >
> Well is was put up on the site on 2nd Nov, but the date of the draft is
> August (i.e. it is the draft from before the last IETF meeting). What
> gives?
>
> So if does not include things decided at that meeting, or discussed since.
> Specifically:
>
> No negated wildmats (with '!' in them) (or alternatively, no negated
> newsgroups in the NEWNEWS command - these currently work fine in INN and
> should be mentioned in section 3 if they no longer belong).
>
> In 9.1, "the server SHOULD allocate the next sequential number" and in
> 9.1.1.1 "reinstatement of the previous article, not a new article reusing
> the number". These both conflict with the intention on the USEFOR group to
> introduce a Replace command in addition to the present Supersedes. So it
> would be better to adjust those sentences. It should cause no problem to
> existing implementations.
>
> In the ARTICLE command, and other places, we still need to decide the
> return code (502 or otherwise) when the article is refused because the
> client does not have authority to access it.
>
> In the NEWNEWS command, I want to be able to say
> 	...news.admin,!news.admin.lists,...
> Hopefully, allowing '!' in wildmats will fix this, but I should like to
> see some wording.
>
> And I am still unhappy that you have to ask specifically for the control
> group to receive control articles, rather than having them sent if their
> Newsgroups line includes one of the groups listed by the NEWNEWS command.
>
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