[NNTP] Language for extensions and capabilities

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> Now that we've moved from LIST EXTENSIONS to [LIST ] CAPABILITIES, how
> should the documents refer to the tokens advertised by CAPABILITIES? 
> Currently, we call them "extension label" in the text (or at least I do)
> and the ABNF calls them "extension-descriptor".  Should we continue to
> use one of these, or should we just refer to them as "capability"?  I'm
> reworking the AUTHINFO draft to use a separate capability to list the
> SASL mechanisms, and now I'm in a situation where I have the "AUTHINFO
> extension label" and the "SASL capability".

I'd like to call them capabilities; I think that's more accurate.

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