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

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> Proposed change:

>     If the server has to terminate the connection for some reason, it
>     MUST give a 400 response code to the next command and then immediately
> +   close the TCP connection.  Following a 400 response, clients SHOULD
> +   NOT simply reconnect immediately and retry the same actions.  Rather,
> +   a client SHOULD either use an exponentially increasing delay between
> +   retries (e.g. double the waiting time after each 400 response) or
> +   present any associated text to the user for them to decide whether and
> +   when to retry.

This sounds fine to me.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>