[NNTP] AUTHINFO diffs

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
> On Jun 8, 2005, at 1:09 PM, Ken Murchison wrote:

>>       Future extensions may add additional arguments to this capability.
>> -     Unrecognized arguments SHOULD be ignored or brought to the
>> -     attention of the user.
>> +     Unrecognized arguments MUST be ignored by the client.

> (We're talking here about the AUTHINFO capabilities line.)

> I'm not sure I agree with this change.  Perhaps the user would like to be
> notified of new AUTHINFO methods.  Regardless, this is a user interface
> issue and not a protocol issue, so I'm skeptical of the appropriateness of
> dictating it.

Isn't bringing something to the attention of the user still allowed under
the conventional interpretation of "ignored by the client"?  I would tend
to read that as "ignored for protocol purposes," not implying that the
client can't take informational notice of them.

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