ietf-nntp LIST EXTENSIONS
Ken Murchison
ken at oceana.com
Tue Sep 9 19:50:18 PDT 2003
After re-reading the LIST EXTENSIONS text, I'd like to propose the
following change to section 5.3.2:
old:
"It is not required that the client issues this command before
attempting to make use of any extension."
new:
"Clients SHOULD issue this command before attempting to make use of any
extension."
I think this change reflects the behavior that we would like to promote,
but also doesn't make existing clients non-compliant. The existing text
makes it sound like LIST EXTENSIONS is completely optional, which is not
what we want IMO.
We could also add the following sentence:
"Clients MUST issue this command before attempting to make use of any
security extension."
But we might be better off leaving this to the extension documentation
itself.
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Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd.
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