ietf-nntp AUTHINFO SASL protocol choices

[Charles Lindsey]

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


>After talking with folks at IETF, there was a general belief that individual
>extensions could set buffer size needs for their use that would not impact
>the buffer sizes for any other commands.

>So, having a generic length extension is an interesting idea, but may be
>overkill.

>A spec for an extension should be able to say "the BLAH command can MAY have
>an argument list of up to XXX octets", but
>that would only mean that the BLAH command could do that, not that all
>commands could do it.

It would require great skill to write an implementation that would accept
1024 octets for the BLAH command, but would fail to accept 1024 octets
for all other commands.

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