[NNTP] Language for extensions and capabilities
Ken Murchison
ken at oceana.com
Fri Dec 3 06:45:34 PST 2004
Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
> Russ Allbery said:
>
>>>Now that we've moved from LIST EXTENSIONS to [LIST ] CAPABILITIES, how
>>>should the documents refer to the tokens advertised by CAPABILITIES?
>
>
>>I'd like to call them capabilities; I think that's more accurate.
>
>
> My text uses the term "capability" for the concept, "capability list" for
> the output from CAPABILITIES, "capability line" for one line of that
> output, and will use "capability name" for the keyword token (the one at
> the start of the line at present, but see other threads).
-pre4 uses "extension-label" in 8.1, 10.4 and Appendix D, that's why I
asked. Are you planning on changing this text, or leave it as-is? I'd
like to use the same language in the extension drafts.
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