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

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Russ Allbery said:
> 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.

Making a quick scan, it contains the following:

CHECK                - in streaming document
MODE STREAM          - in streaming document
TAKETHIS             - in streaming document
XREPLIC              - deprecated as unnecessary
LIST ACTIVE          - in core document
LIST ACTIVE.TIMES    - in core document
LIST DISTRIBUTIONS   - no equivalent
LIST DISTRIB.PATS    - in core document
LIST NEWSGROUPS      - in core document
LIST OVERVIEW.FMT    - in core document
LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS   - no equivalent
LISTGROUP            - in core document
MODE READER          - in core document
XGTITLE              - deprecated in favour of LIST NEWSGROUPS
XHDR                 - replaced by HDR in core document
XINDEX               - deprecated in favour of OVER (?)
XOVER                - replaced by OVER in core document
XPAT                 - no equivalent
XPATH                - deprecated as not useful
XROVER               - deprecated in favour of HDR (?)
XTHREAD              - deprecated in favour of OVER (?)
AUTHINFO USER        - in authinfo document
AUTHINFO PASS        - in authinfo document
AUTHINFO SIMPLE      - deprecated in favour of AUTHINFO SASL
AUTHINFO GENERIC     - replaced by AUTHINFO SASL in authinfo document
DATE                 - in core document

Do people think this is correct?

It would seem to me that the best approach is:
* core, authinfo, streaming all "update 2980";
* a future work item is 2980bis, giving the contents of the above table
  (as corrected) plus specifications for the three remaining commands
  and any others we are/become aware of.

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