[ietf-nntp] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-nntpext-authinfo-00.txt

[Ken Murchison]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> 
>>    The first or only line of the response MUST NOT exceed 512 octets,
>>    which includes the response code and the terminating CRLF pair; an
>>    extension MAY specify a greater maximum for commands that it
>>    defines, but not for any other command.
> 
> 
> So we need to deal with this by explicitly waiving it or increasing it
> somehow.  We had some discussion about this before, I know; I thought we'd
> reached a conclusion, but maybe not.

OK, since the base doc allows an extension to increase the length of the 
first line of a response, why can't we do that here?

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