ietf-nntp AUTHINFO SASL protocol choices

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Charles Lindsey wrote:

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

Well, not "great skill" per se, but additional effort.  I can't see why
it would be worthwhile.

Draft 15 does not say what happens if a client violates the line length
limit.  There are three things a server can reasonably do:
- accept the longer command
- silently truncate to 512
- return a syntax error

Do we intend to comment on which of these are appropriate?

-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org