[NNTP] draft-ietf-nntpext-authinfo-04

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Oct 4 12:35:42 PDT 2004


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

> I disagree violently.

> The description of LIST EXTENSIONS talks about the list altering as
> internal state changes. For example, if a command

>     is only available before or after a MODE READER command, the LIST
>     EXTENSIONS command MUST only include the extension in that situation.

> Note that "MUST".

> A server might not want to advertise a private capability to clients
> that haven't authenticated themselves, and it seems more than reasonable
> that they should be allowed not to do so.

Yeah, never mind.  That was a bad idea on my part.

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



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