ietf-nntp 32/64 bit question

[Charles Lindsey]

In <20031012090613.GE23726 at finch-staff-1.thus.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> writes:

>The way to do it is for you to define a BIGNUM extension. Then a server can
>respond

>    401 BIGNUM Article numbers exceed 2**32

Or you could say servers SHOULD do it.

Or, if partial compliance is too big a stigma to carry, perhaps some
weasel words could be written to say that implementors "Ought" to try to
do better.

But I don't think we want to push any harder than that at the present time
(certainly not if we have 2000 years to do it in).

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