ietf-nntp Virtual hosts in NNTP servers

Joao Prado Maia jpm at papercut.org
Sat Mar 1 21:18:25 PST 2003


On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Russ Allbery wrote:

> The difficulty there is partly procedural, in that it's out of scope right
> now.  We have a very limited working group scope aimed at documenting
> existing practice and standardizing a small number of widely implemented
> extensions that nearly everyone already implements.  We're also discussing
> authentication, which is technically out of scope, but it's sort of a
> special situation since the IETF is very concerned with not introducing
> new protocols without strong authentication support.
> 
> Since this is something brand new, it's not really eligible for the
> current base document.  If it's published as an extension, though, it
> could certainly be eligible for a future revision.
> 

That's fine by me, at least if we can agree that this new feature could be 
useful in certain situations. It would certainly be useful to me right 
now. :)

Cheers,
Joao




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