ietf-nntp DEBUG command (9xx)

Stan O. Barber sob at verio.net
Wed Jul 26 13:54:12 PDT 2000


"Clive D.W. Feather" wrote:
> 
> Andrew Gierth said:
> >> If not, then I'd like to propose a somewhat radical notion to
> >> take care of two problems at once.  How about we combine the
> >> private and debugging spaces and leave x9x for any and all
> >> implementation-specific codes unlikely to be seen in the wild?
> >> We can then rename the x8x space to be authentication codes
> 
> > I would go along with that
> 
> So would I.
> 
> What's required for the group to declare this to be a consensus position ?
> I'm happy to rewrite 4 (again !) along these lines if it is, but I don't
> want too many parallel versions around at once.
> 

However, RFC 977 does not agree with either of you, so we can't go down that
path.



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