[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS and an NNTPv2 capability
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Wed Nov 3 21:17:01 PST 2004
Mark Crispin said:
> That would require me to read the document in full, which unfortunately I
> haven't. I'm just bewildered why a relatively small protocol such as NNTP
> has a document that is almost as large as IMAP which is a much larger and
> more complex protocol.
I've done a brief analysis of my current text (draft 25 in waiting).
There are 107 pages and 5992 lines (of which 4087 are substantive).
The breakdown of pages is:
4 Abstract and bumf
3 Table of contents
16 Introduction, notation, concepts, wildmats
39 The 22 core commands (including "initial connection")
19 Extensions, both concepts and the three we've bundled in [*]
8 ABNF syntax
7 IANA and security considerations, acknowledgements
1 References
10 Appendices:
1 Future directions
3 Interaction with other specifications
4 Summary of response codes
2 Formal specification of extensions
[*] 2 and a bit pages of concepts, just under 17 pages of bundled
I then stripped all the examples out of the text. This lost 25 pages:
2 from the concepts section
16 from the core commands
6 from the extensions
plus one more because the TOC now just fits on two pages.
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