ietf-nntp CONSENSUS POLL -- PLEASE READ AND RESPOND NO LATER THAN 1400 CST 17 March 2002 (that +6:00 GMT for those that don't know what CST is)

[Andrew Gierth]

>>>>> "Stan" == Stan O Barber <sob at academ.com> writes:

[cc'd back to the list too]

 Stan> UTF-8

 Stan> Should UTF-8 BNF in the document be changed to:

 Stan>     UTF-8-non-ascii = UTF8-2 / UTF8-3 / UTF8-4
 Stan>     UTF8-1 = %x80-BF
 Stan>     UTF8-2 = %xC2-DF UTF8-1
 Stan>     UTF8-3 = %xE0 %xA0-BF UTF8-1 / %xE1-EC 2UTF8-1 /
 Stan>              %xED %x80-9F UTF8-1 / %xEE-EF 2UTF8-1
 Stan>     UTF8-4 = %xF0 %x90-BF 2UTF8-1 / %xF1-F3 3UTF8-1 /
 Stan>              %xF4 %x80-8F 2UTF8-1

AGREE

 Stan> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Stan> Overview

 Stan> In the response to the OVER command, should bytes and lines be 
 Stan> calculated in real-time using the entire article (body and headers)?

Mu.

The Bytes field in OVER should be calculated from the whole article,
though it is _not_ required that the response to an ARTICLE command
contain exactly that number of octets.

The Lines field should be calculated from the article body only
(headers excluded).

 Stan> Should blank mandatory headers return a value of ""?

AGREE (assuming you mean "without the quotes")

 Stan> Should optional headers that have no contents (or are missing)
 Stan> return a value of "LABLE:"?

AGREE

 Stan> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Stan> REPONSE CODE 502

 Stan> Should this response code be limited to permission/authorization 
 Stan> failures only?

AGREE

 Stan> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Stan> LISTGROUP

 Stan> Should LISTGROUP be eliminated from the base spec?

DISAGREE

It's a command in established use, there is no reason to break
compatibility.

(About 1% of the group accesses that I see are "LISTGROUP group.name"
(and about 2% are NEWNEWS). I have no stats on the use of LISTGROUP
without parameters after doing "GROUP group.name".)

 Stan> If DISAGREE, should the 211 response code in LISTGROUP be
 Stan> changed to another code?

DISAGREE

reason as above.

-- 
Andrew.