[NNTP] AUTHINFO diffs

[Ken Murchison]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> 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.

Is this a vote for leaving the change above as-is?

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