[NNTP] draft-ietf-nntpext-tls-nntp-02.txt

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Mon Oct 4 02:35:05 PDT 2004


Russ Allbery said:
>>> (Perhaps we could add a caution to client authors in the Generic
>>> Responses section of the base spec, warning not to DOS the server by
>>> rapidly retrying many times after receiving a 400 response?)
>> I'd be happy to do that if Russ is happy with the procedural load (it
>> means issuing a new draft for Last Call instead of the present one).
> Actually, we've already gone through Last Call, and I don't believe we've
> made any changes of sufficient substance to force us to go through it
> again.  However, I'm currently talking with Mark Crispin and he's raised
> some good points that I'm still trying to digest enough to relay to the
> mailing list.  We may have to do another round with those changes since he
> appears to have completely missed the first Last Call that we did (I'm not
> quite sure what the procedure is on that).

Okay, so it sounds like I should be planning on a new draft anyway. I'll
add changes to the 400 text.

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