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[Charles Lindsey]

In <87wtuitpqk.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

>> If a LIST variant is useful by itself, then I can see why we would
>> advertise it separately, but if it is implicitly tied to other
>> functionality which has its own capability, then its makes no sense to
>> me whatsoever.  In my experience, allowing for ambiguity in a protocol
>> is a *bad* thing.

>The problem is that we have two different things with which we can be
>consistent:  we can make a simple rule across the board that all list
>varients are advertised via the LIST capability, or we can have one
>capability per linked set of commands.  Either way we go, we break the
>other consistency principle.

Indeed. I prefer the first, Ken prefers the second. If nobody else chips
in, you get to toss the coin :-) .

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