ietf-nntp LIST EXTENSIONS caching

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> 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.

This also sounds great to me.

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