[ietf-nntp] RE: How to organize the base NNTP draft

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Russ Allbery said:
> Splitting between the base protocol and extensions
> doesn't make as much sense; there's some stuff that everyone should be
> implementing that would be in the extensions document.

> I think that if we want to stay strictly within the charter, we need to
> publish the base document as it stands and immediately move on to treating
> STARTTLS and AUTHINFO SASL as extensions under point three.  Failing that,
> we should probably recharter to include strong authentication and
> encryption in our mission so that we can publish a combined draft with all
> of it.

Either way, this sounds like I should scrap my version that split between
base and extensions, right? As I said before, I don't want to maintain two
streams for long, so a quick decision on this would be appreciated.

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