ietf-nntp draft posted

[Stan O. Barber]

Thanks. With my illness in the summer and all the changes at work in 
September, October and November (two new bosses in less than a month), 
it has been kinda hard to get this done.

Unless I am wrong, I believe the only item of substance remaining is the 
wildmat definition. Of course, I could be wrong.

Russ Allbery wrote:

> Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> 
>>Where is the Clive's text for wildmats, which was discussed extensively
>>on this group and on which a consensus was reached?
>>
> 
> The new wildmat text predated the beginning of my collection of things
> that had been discussed on the list, and I didn't go back and add it
> because I wasn't sure that we'd reached consensus on which form of wildmat
> we decided to adopt.  There were two or three alternate texts proposed,
> and it wasn't clear to me which people favored.  There are open questions
> about whether character classes should be included, for example.
> 
> Can you point at the proposal that you feel has reached consensus?
> 
> 
>>Can I remind you that it is now three years since I first pointed out
>>the shortcomings of the Wildmat feature, and it has STILL not been
>>fixed.
>>
> 
> Relax.  We're getting there.  That's a rather hard and thorny issue and
> there was a ton of mostly unresolved discussion about it, which I too
> would interpret as meaning that the changes weren't final enough to get
> into the draft.
> 
> I'm happy to continue tracking wording changes, so please raise whatever
> you consider to be the current state of the wildmat stuff and we'll start
> talking about it again.  It may be fairly quickly resolved at this point.
> 
> 
>>I see no point whatsoever in submitting this draft as an ietf-draft
>>until this matter has been attended to.
>>
> 
> I do.  This draft is already very useful for real implementation of NNTP.
> It's not complete; that's why it's a *draft*.  (But except for wildmat, I
> think we're basically done.)
> 
> Thank you for all your work, Stan!  I'm on vacation at the moment, but as
> soon as I get back I'll check the draft over against my list of changes
> and double-check that everything made it in.
> 
>