ietf-nntp new draft of base document available

[Russ Allbery]

Stan Barber <sob at academ.com> writes:

> In this version, all the changes suggested by Clive Feather on the
> previous draft have been consider in this update with the except of
> those that relate to including pipelining in the draft.

> I'd like for more discussion on this. Personally, I am not sure we
> should assume all implementations support this. I am also not sure how
> much detail we need to include. Clive has suggested a couple of
> sentences and if folks think we need to include it and that description
> is enough, I am ok with that.

> However, RFC 1854 is pretty detailed on this and I am wondering if we
> need the same level of detail on this in the draft (if we have that in
> there).

> Alternatively, we could make it an extension and put it in another
> document.

Let's please make it an extension along the lines of RFC 1854; the world
needs this draft to be released as an official RFC a lot more than it
needs streaming guarantees for NNTP.

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