[NNTP] Streaming draft 02

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Fri Oct 15 12:38:57 PDT 2004


Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> [Sorry, lost the original message]
> 
> A few minor comments.
> 
> Abstract and 2.2: I would change "asynchronous" to "pipelined".

I think asynchronous came from Jeff and/or RFC 2980, but I'm fine with 
either language.


> 2.3.3: "requesting" gives the wrong message, implying that it's necessary
> to use MODE STREAMING. Use "checking" instead.

Good point.


> You need a section 3.3 (actually, it belongs between 3.1 and 3.2):
> 
>    3.2  Command continuation
> 
>    This syntax extends the non-terminal "command-continuation", which
>    represents the further material sent by the client in the case of
>    multi-stage commands.
> 
>      command-continuation /= takethis-continuation
> 
>      takethis-continuation = encoded-article
> 
> (encoded-article is defined in [NNTP]).

Good catch.  Thanks!


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