ietf-nntp LIST EXTENSION caching, latest wording
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Mon Oct 13 04:47:39 PDT 2003
Jeffrey M. Vinocur said:
> Mmm, improving. Some pedantry --
Always welcome.
>> While some extensions are likely to be always available or never
>> available, others will "appear" and "disappear" depending on other
>> changes.
> "other changes" is awkward/confusing, can you rephrase more precisely?
s/other changes/server state or external events/
is the best I can think of.
>> An NNTP client may cache the results of this command, but
>> MUST NOT rely on any cached results - whether from earlier in this
>> session or from a previous session - remaining correct,
> The interjected phrase there surprises my mental parser, what about "but
> MUST NOT rely on the correctness of any cached results" so the whole
> phrase is together?
Yep.
>> Furthermore, a client MUST NOT use cached results in
>> relation to security, privacy, and authentication extensions. See
>> Section 11.6 for further discussion of this topic.
> Wait, how does this interact with the "earlier in this session" above?
I don't see that it's related. It MUST NOT use cached results for these
extensions, no matter when the caching was done.
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