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

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
> 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.

There are a small handful of things for which RFC 2980 is still the only
available specification, but none of them are particularly
earth-shattering.  That being said, I'm not sure we want to decide to
obsolete RFC 2980 without some more thought and work on the things that
we've left out.

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