ietf-nntp Revised Notes from IETF 49

Lee Kindness lkindness at csl.co.uk
Mon Jan 29 01:29:40 PST 2001


Stan O. Barber writes:
 > Andrew Gierth wrote:
 > > There has been a lot of discussion of UTC in terms of the
 > > _meaning_ of the time parameters to NEWNEWS and NEWGROUPS, but
 > > this is not the same issue.
 > I don't agree. As far as I am concerned, this is the very heart of
 > the issue. What does it mean?

They are separate - one issue is syntax, the other semantics...

 > So, if we all agree that the whole discussion was a rathole and not
 > worth the trouble, we can certainly remove it from the draft and
 > revert back to what was in RFC 977.

Certainly, we do not need the 'UTC' token.

Lee.



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