ietf-nntp draft-ietf-nntpext-base-19
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Tue Sep 9 10:28:13 PDT 2003
Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> Um, yes, that *was* what I was trying to say. Let me try slightly
> different wording:
> At all points in the session those commands currently listed by LIST
> EXTENSIONS must be available. Therefore, if an extension (including
> those in section 8) is only available before or after a MODE READER
> command, the LIST EXTENSIONS command MUST only include the extension
> in that situation. Similarly, if only some of the commands in an
> extension will be available, or if the behaviour of the extension
> will change in some other manner, before or after a MODE READER
> command, this MUST be indicated by different arguments to the
> extension-label in the results of LIST EXTENSIONS in each situation.
> I could live with (though I wouldn't like) that last MUST being a SHOULD.
Oh, okay. After thinking about it a moment, that sounds fine to me.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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