ietf-nntp Draft summary of IETF 48 meeting

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Charles Lindsey said:
> Yes, I think you word it as a canonicalisation of the header before
> matching. All whitespace (including folds and the nbsp character) is
> collapsed to a single SP, and then you match. The only thing in the
> wildmat that matches a SP is '?' or '*' or, in PAT, the gap between
> wildmats. It seems close enough to what INN does (does INN collapse folds,
> too?) and close enough to what XPAT seems to be trying to do.

That sounds the right approach to me.

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