[NNTP] AUTHINFO diffs
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Wed Jun 8 18:19:05 PDT 2005
Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
> 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?
Yes, I liked the change. It seems cleaner to me this way.
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