ietf-nntp Collected minor issues

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Mar 24 10:05:51 PST 2003


Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> Russ Allbery said:

>> Hm.  For both RFC 1036 and RFC 2822, header names aren't case or
>> language-specific (and message-ids have already been dealt with
>> separately).  That makes me wonder if we couldn't simplify things here
>> slightly by omitting this provision and simply stating that all such
>> parameters are case-insensitive.

> No, because these are by no means the only cases. For example, this
> would require group names in GROUP to be case-insensitive, and would
> have nasty implications for a GREP extension.

Oh, yeah, good point.  Okay, best left alone, agreed.

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



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