ietf-nntp MODE READER proposed text

[Stan O. Barber]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> 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.

If we are going to do that, it should be in an extensions document, not in the
base spec. (or it could be a "new" protocol, if folks want to go there).