ietf-nntp Last major open issue (48x return codes)

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Sep 8 08:41:25 PDT 2003


Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>> For the latter question, I think reserving 48x codes to mean that a
>> command is unavailable unless some authentication or privacy extension
>> is invoked is the best approach.

> Something like that, but are there other circumstances?

Not that I can think of; do you have anything in mind?

> Clearly, the obvious hoops are authentication and privacy, but could
> there be others we have not thought of yet, and should the wording be
> broad enought to cover them in the future?

Authentication and privacy are pretty huge buckets that should encapsulate
a world of extensions.

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



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