ietf-nntp Currently outstanding issues

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Jeffrey M. Vinocur said:
> Here's the text:
> 
> | [... man-in-the-middle attacks ...] An NNTP client can partially
> | protect against these attacks by recording the fact that a particular
> | NNTP server offers TLS during one session and generating an alarm if it
> | does not appear in the LIST EXTENSIONS response for a later session.

That doesn't use the word "caching", and it isn't caching, so I feel that
that wording is fine.

> So I'm trying to decide if the second sentence from 5.3.2 above is the 
> (normative) definition of "use in another session", or just a (n 
> informative) clarification.

Doesn't matter - the whole point of what you're doing is that the copy
you're storing *isn't* the "correct and current information".

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