[ietf-nntp] Extension documents

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Tue Jun 8 09:16:12 PDT 2004


Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
> I'd like to make a recommendation for some general wording for extension
> documents, including both AUTHINFO, TLS, and anything to follow. The idea
> is to encourage consistency. Opinions?
> 
> Here are my proposals:
> 
> In the introduction, include:
> 
>     This specification is to be read in conjunction with the NNTP base
>     specification [NNTP]. Except where specifically stated otherwise, in
>     the case of a conflict between these two documents [NNTP] takes
>     precedence over this one.
> 
> If only one extension is described in the document:
...
> 
> If more than one extension is described in the document:

What about something like AUTHINFO where there is one extension, with 
two command variants which can be implemented independent of one another?

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