ietf-nntp Currently outstanding issues

[Charles Lindsey]

In <87y8zb4nvw.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

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

>> So you could, I suppose, create a similar IANA Registry for NNTP
>> commands.

>I really have no desire to do that.  I don't find that a particularly
>useful compromise position for commands; a registry just doesn't contain
>enough information to ensure interoperability, and without that, what's
>the point?

>The NNTP implementation community is fairly good at communication.  I
>don't anticipate a lot of unexpected stepping-on.

Agreed. An IANA registry for news and email headers is much more useful,
because the community of people who would like to create new headers is
much wider than the community that might want to create new NNTP commands.

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