ietf-nntp Concerning Streaming

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Stan Barber said:
> The proposal was to call it streaming and the text was in the original 
> poll document. I don't recall any consensus to change it to pipelining 
> and there was concern at the IETF meeting that it might be confused with 
> the SMTP extension if we called it pipelining.

But it does much the same as that extension, so it's a reasonable name.

There was concern on the list that it might be confused with the NNTP
extension called MODE STREAMING (or something like that).

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