[NNTP] CAPABILITIES problem!

maurizio codogno puntomaupunto at tin.it
Mon Aug 1 06:10:10 PDT 2005


>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.

If there is no current implementation of IMPLEMENTATION :-), probably
option 3 is the best, but the others are fine too.

ciao, .mau.





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