ietf-nntp Currently outstanding issues

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> 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.

draft-klyne-msghdr-registry-06.txt sets up such a registrary for email
headers, and is currently being evaluated by the IESG.

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