[NNTP] Consensus?

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Walker <nntp at nntpserver.com> writes:
> Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

>> This is not "a minor change" and I don't believe we can just sneak it
>> into the document without wider review.

> It wasn't a minor change to add the 32 bit wording either, yet it was
> added.

Yes, it was added eight years ago and went through at least three internal
last calls, multiple public postings to news.software.nntp including one
with complete text, two complete IETF-wide last calls, and an IESG review.

We are not now in the same phase of this process that we were when the
limit was added.

> You seem to be ignoring the fact that there are popular 64 bit clients
> in use today.  The new wording causes existing software to become
> non-compliant.

64-bit *clients* are compliant with the existing wording.

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