ietf-nntp Currently outstanding issues

Sat Apr 26 05:27:30 PDT 2003

Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> Section 12:
> 
> | OUTSTANDING ISSUE
> |
> | Why RFC 1939?
> 
> Stan answered this somewhere back in the list archives.  I don't recall
> exactly.  I don't think we necessarily need to explain it, so if we can't
> find a good explanation, I'd just leave it as-is.

I'd guess that RFC 1939 is listed as a reference because the NNTP
extension mechanism is patterned after the POP3 extension mechanism and
the SMTP extension mechanism (RFC 1869).  I'd leave both references if
Stan used them as inspiration.

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