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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