ietf-nntp MODE READER proposed text

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>>    Servers are encouraged to not require this command even though
>>    clients SHOULD send it when appropriate.  It is present to support
>>    some news architectures which switch between modes based on whether
>>    a given connection is a peer-to-peer connection with another server
>>    or a news reading client.  It is preferrable instead to accept
>>    peer-to-peer connections on a different port and to assume that all
>>    connections to the standard NNTP port are from news reading clients.

> If we are going to mention the possibility of an alternative port, then
> we should allocate a specific port number for that purpose (after
> getting proper clearance from IANA, of course).

I'm wholeheartedly in favor of that and 433 has already been reserved for
that purpose, but Stan said it was out of scope.

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