[NNTP] CAPABILITIES problem!
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Mon Aug 1 01:33:23 PDT 2005
I can't believe we all missed this. The IANA registry people have just
pointed it out to me.
In 3.3.1 we define a capability label as being a keyword.
In 2 we state that a keyword MUST be at least 3 characters and MUST NOT
exceed 12 characters.
[Both these are repeated in the formal syntax.]
In 3.3.2 we specify the capability label IMPLEMENTATION.
Which is 14 characters long.
Possible solutions:
(1) Relax the 12 character limit to something longer (where did it come
from anyway?).
(2) Relax the requirement for the label to be a keyword.
(3) Change the keyword to something shorter, like SERVER_INFO.
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