ietf-nntp LIST EXTENSIONS caching

[Ken Murchison]

Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> Okay, here's the text I now have. Can people please comment on it? I
> will change the SHOULDs to MUSTs iff Russ tells me to.

The longer this discussion goes on, the more I am of the opinion that we 
should just remove all discussion of caching LIST EXTENSIONS from the 
document.  Since there aren't any security issues related to any of the 
optional commands in the base doc, we can get by with neither 
encouraging nor discouraging caching of these capabilities.  Any 
extensions where caching is a definite no-no can be discussed within 
those individual documents.

The IMAP, POP3 and SMTP RFCs make no mention of it, and this hasn't 
caused any problems.  NNTP is very similar to these other protocols, so 
let's just follow their lead and not try to be pioneers or reinvernt the 
wheel.

This seems to be the path of least resistance, causes no harm, and gets 
the draft out the door immediately.

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