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

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> Note that the option of closing the connection is something that is not
> present in RFC 3207 (on which most of this text is based).  It was added
> by Jeff because he felt that servers may not want to have client beating
> on them after a failed TLS.  I never really liked this text and would
> prefer to just stick with the original RFC 3207 text (just issue 483
> responses to subsequent commands).  Doesn't the base doc already allow
> servers to unilaterally terminate the connection and addresses how to do
> this?  If so, do we need to address this in the STARTTLS doc?

I'm pretty sure unilateral termination is already allowed, and in any
event it can happen whether allowed or not so clients have to cope with
it.  I don't have a problem with sticking to the original text here.
Jeff, do you still think this is needed?

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