[NNTP] draft-ietf-nntpext-streaming-02

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Right now, the document says:
>>      The client SHOULD NOT assume that the article has been successfully
>>      transferred unless it receives an affirmative response from the
>>      server.  A lack of response (such as a dropped network connection
>>      or a network timeout) SHOULD be treated the same as a 432 response.
>> I think it should say:
>>      The client SHOULD NOT assume that the article has been successfully
>>      transferred unless it receives an affirmative response from the
>>      server.  A lack of response (such as a dropped network connection or
>>      a network timeout) or a 400 response SHOULD cause the transfer to be
>>      tried again later if possible.
>> or something along those lines, including the wording from the 432
>> response in there under the assumption that we're taking out that response
>> code again.

> The existing paragraph was taken verbatim (other then the 432) from the
> base doc.  Does this change also apply to IHAVE, or does TAKETHIS have
> subtle differences from IHAVE in the wild?

I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to note this with IHAVE as well, but
maybe consistency is better.

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