ietf-nntp Generic Response Codes wording
Peter Robinson
pmrobinson at gmx.net
Fri Oct 10 08:48:19 PDT 2003
| 3.2.1 Generic Response Codes
Background:
| If the command is not recognized, or it is an optional command or
| extension that is not implemented by the server, the response code
| 500 MUST be returned.
It is very easy to misread the following:
| With the exception of mandatory commands and the 500 response,
| the client MUST be prepared to receive any of these responses
| for any command.
as two separate exceptions (i.e. as saying that the client need not
generally be prepared to receive a 500 response, and need not be
prepared to receive any generic responses to mandatory commands).
I suggest this:
With the exception of the 500 response to mandatory commands,
the client MUST be prepared to receive any of these responses
for any command.
[ Is it appropriate to suggest wording changes such as this to 'stable'
sections at this stage? ]
Peter
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