ietf-nntp WG Review of draft-dfncis-netnews-admin-sys-05.txt

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> Essentially, this needs a distributed database, and since Usenet is
> already a distributed database, the obvious way to do it is to use
> Usenet itself to propagate this stuff. Yes, it might need a few extra
> features such as 'named articles' which have been discussed from time to
> time but, with care, it could be introduced without those, or in a
> manner that would upgrade smoothly to those.

I don't believe it's appropriate to reject a tested proposal with working
code that doesn't do anything fundamentally wrong in favor of
pie-in-the-sky dreaming about how we could do the same thing over Usenet,
which people have been talking about for years and never actually
implemented.

> Another problem with their scheme is that it seems to require a grand
> "root" of the whole system, and that is just not the Usenet way of doing
> things.

I don't agree.

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