ietf-nntp IANA extension registry (was: Commetns on draft-15.pdf)

Charles Lindsey chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk
Thu Jan 3 04:24:39 PST 2002


In <ylzo3wr7l0.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>I would assume that Ned wasn't talking about headers at all, given that
>the NNTP protocol doesn't care about headers.

Sorry, I was getting confused with a similar thread running on USEFOR.

>I do think that the extension names from LIST EXTENSIONS should remain
>reserved forever, even if an extension falls into disuse.

I would agree once it got as far as mention in a Proposed Standard RFC.

But suppose that the NNTP extensions registry had been already in
existence, and with some "provisional" mechanism in it (it isn't in
existence, of course, because this draft is going to create it).

Now we propose a PAT command (well, we did propose one). We would then
have put it in the registry (provisionally, or whatever the procedure
was), just to ensure that noone else tried to propose a PAT command for
anything else.

PAT did appear in several of our drafts but, in due course, we took it out
and put HDR in its place. At that point we would want to take PAT out of
teh registry (leaving the possibility that someone could reinvent it at
some future date). No problem with doing that, because PAT was never
actually seen in the wild (not even as an experiment, I believe).

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