ietf-nntp Review of draft-dfncis-netnews-admin-sys-04.txt

[Russ Allbery]

Robert Schuettler <rober at cis.fu-berlin.de> writes:
> * Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> [29.04.02 21:10]:

>> I'd really like to see the packets of information about a hierarchy
>> registered as a MIME type.  I don't think that would be much additional
>> work for this draft, and then those packets could also be included in
>> control messages.

> The idea of the NAS database is to allow administators, administrative
> tools and newsclients to query the database not to actively send out
> something like control messages.

Understood, but maybe someone else would want to do that.  Where I'm
coming from is that it doesn't seem like it would hurt anything, and it's
a minimal amount of effort (basically, just adding an IANA Considerations
section to the draft, I believe, asking for the MIME type to be
registered).

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>