ietf-nntp LIST EXTENSIONS caching

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Mon Oct 13 01:11:42 PDT 2003


Russ Allbery said:
>> Actually, what you should be saying is that people who design security
>> extensions SHOULD include requirements to check the security state of the
>> link.
> This isn't the business of the base NNTP standard, I think.  That's a
> policy statement about security protocols, and is somewhat outside the
> scope of what we're writing here.

Actually I agree with Charles. A simple sentence like this:

    Any security extension should include requirements to check the 
    security state of the link in a manner appropriate to that extension.

is probably the best thing to follow the examples in 11.6.

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