[NNTP] Notes on auxiliary documents

[Ken Murchison]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>And from that point of view, without LIST EXTENSIONS, Ken's comment is
>>correct that
> 
> 
>>     A client MAY attempt the first step of authentication at any time
>>     during a session to acquire additional privileges without having
>>     received a 480 response. [...] Servers are not required to accept
>>     unsolicited authentication information from the client, therefore
>>     clients MUST accommodate servers that reject such authentication
>>     information.
> 
> 
>>was intended to be one coherent thought.  (And I think it is, in fact,
>>quite sensible, as documentation of current practice.)
> 
> 
> Is there any reason not to simply require that servers support unsolicited
> authentication, without any note about older servers?  Are there any
> servers that don't support AUTHINFO at any point during the session?  (I
> think it would actually be harder to write a server that behaved that way
> than to support AUTHINFO at any time.)

That's a good question.  Do we really need to discuss this at all? 
Isn't assumed that any command can be used unprompted?

If we can get a consensus on what we want this to say, I have some 
airplane time tomorrow and Saturday to work on this.

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