[NNTP] Re: New NNTP drafts approaching IETF Last Call

[Russ Allbery]

Mark Crispin <MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Russ Allbery wrote:

>>>   1) Clarify that, as of this specification, all command responses are
>>>      UTF-8.  Death to all ISO 8859-x, Shift-JIS, etc. responses.

>> Here's the practical problem:  Some of the command responses (such as
>> OVER and HDR in particular) are article headers.  Usenet in practice
>> has a significant "just send 8-bits" culture in some hierarchies

> Those are "article texts", and thus are covered in point 2:

Ah, got it.  Sorry, a bit slow today.

> In response, I can say that IMAP wasn't allowed to bail on such
> questions (I tried...).  So the precedent is there, and it's not in your
> favor.

> Fortunately, the "bail" option isn't lost; it just requires more wording.

I'll try to draft something based on the IMAP language as a proposal for a
specific change in the current wording and run it by the group and see if
we can get consensus around it.  I'll try to get that finished by
tomorrow.

Thank you!

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