[NNTP] RE: Last Call: 'Network News Transfer Protocol' to Proposed Standard

[Ken Murchison]

Scott Hollenbeck wrote:

> The IESG has received a last call comment that raises a question about the
> status of RFC 2980 and the proposed new NNTP base specification.  2980 is
> currently listed as an informative reference in draft-ietf-nntpext-base-26.
> Is the new base spec supposed to obsolete 2980?

IMO, the combination of BASE, AUTHINFO, and STREAMING effectively 
supercede/obsolete the most common parts of 2980 (the recent discussion 
of LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS notwithstanding), and 2980 could probably be moved 
to historical for the remaining parts.

That said, others in the WG might disagree.

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