ietf-nntp Response codes - debugging, authentication & unknown

[Russ Allbery]

Lee Kindness <lkindness at csl.co.uk> writes:

> *      The use of unspecified response codes for a standard command 
>        is prohibited. 

> However I'm a little uncertain of the paragraph marked *. I think the
> following might be more suitable, and desirable:

>        The use of unspecified response codes for a standard command 
> !      is prohibited unless implemented by the 'LIST EXTENSIONS'
> !      mechanism.

How about:

    Standard commands (those specified in this document) SHOULD NOT
    result in response codes not documented here or in a standard
    extension.

or something along those lines.  You want to get one of the standards
words in there, like SHOULD or MUST.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>