[NNTP] draft-ietf-nntpext-authinfo-05 & draft-ietf-nntpext-tls-nntp-03

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Oct 5, 2004, at 9:43 AM, Ken Murchison wrote:

> Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
>> Just going through these now. Comments on the latter sent separately.
>> I've just realized there's a potential deadlock: what stops a server 
>> giving
>> 483 to AUTHINFO and 480 to STARTTLS? Do we want to forbid the latter
>> (particularly since you can't use STARTTLS after authentication), or 
>> do we
>> want to leave this in the "too dumb to worry about" pile?
>
> Not a bad idea, but I don't care either way.

I can reasonably see forbidding a 480 response to STARTTLS, I think.  
Thoughts on that?

If we don't like that idea, I'd say not to worry about this case any 
further.  I mean, it's not a protocol issue, for one thing.  And it's a 
fairly uncheckable/unenforceable specification.



-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org