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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