[NNTP] Diffs
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Mon May 30 15:17:58 PDT 2005
Just for the record, here's a set of diffs between the draft 26 text and my
current working text.
--- draft26.unpg Sat May 21 23:20:00 2005
+++ draft27.unpg Fri May 27 15:00:27 2005
@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@
NNTP C. Feather
Internet-Draft Thus plc
-Expires: November 21, 2005 May 20, 2005
+Updates: 2980 (if approved) May 26, 2005
+Obsoletes: 977 (if approved)
+Expires: November 27, 2005
Network News Transfer Protocol
- draft-ietf-nntpext-base-26
+ draft-ietf-nntpext-base-27
Status of this Memo
@@ -32,7 +34,7 @@
The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
- This Internet-Draft will expire on November 21, 2005.
+ This Internet-Draft will expire on November 27, 2005.
Copyright Notice
@@ -52,6 +54,8 @@
This document is a product of the NNTP Working Group, chaired by Russ
Allbery and Ned Freed.
+ This is draft 27 pre-publication version 1.
+
Author's Note
This document is written in XML using an NNTP-specific DTD. Custom
@@ -65,6 +69,19 @@
UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
+Note to the RFC Editor
+
+ The normative reference to RFC 2234 [RFC2234] and the informative
+ reference to RFC 2629 [RFC2629] may be replaced by
+ draft-crocker-abnf-rfc2234bis and draft-mrose-writing-rfcs
+ respectively should either or both of those documents reach RFC
+ status before this one.
+
+ The informative references to [NNTP-AUTH], [NNTP-STREAM], and [NNTP-
+ TLS] are documents which are expected to be published simultaneously
+ with this one and so can be replaced by references to the resulting
+ RFCs.
+
Table of Contents
@@ -2159,7 +2176,7 @@
[S] Subject: I am just a test article
[S] Date: 6 Oct 1998 04:38:40 -0500
[S] Organization: An Example Net, Uncertain, Texas
- [S] Message-ID: <411 at example.net>
+ [S] Message-ID: <45223423 at example.com>
[S]
[S] This is just a test article.
[S] .
@@ -2174,7 +2191,7 @@
[S] Subject: I am just a test article
[S] Date: 6 Oct 1998 04:38:40 -0500
[S] Organization: An Example Net, Uncertain, Texas
- [S] Message-ID: <411 at example.net>
+ [S] Message-ID: <45223423 at example.com>
[S]
[S] This is just a test article.
[S] .
@@ -2265,7 +2282,7 @@
[S] Subject: I am just a test article
[S] Date: 6 Oct 1998 04:38:40 -0500
[S] Organization: An Example Net, Uncertain, Texas
- [S] Message-ID: <411 at example.net>
+ [S] Message-ID: <45223423 at example.com>
[S] .
Example of a successful retrieval of the headers of an article by
@@ -2279,7 +2296,7 @@
[S] Subject: I am just a test article
[S] Date: 6 Oct 1998 04:38:40 -0500
[S] Organization: An Example Net, Uncertain, Texas
- [S] Message-ID: <411 at example.net>
+ [S] Message-ID: <45223423 at example.com>
[S] .
Example of an unsuccessful retrieval of the headers of an article by
@@ -3748,6 +3765,10 @@
This command MAY generate different results if used more than once in
a session.
+ If the OVER command is not implemented, the meaning of the output
+ from this command is not specified but it must still meet the above
+ syntactic requirements.
+
8.4.3. Examples
Example of LIST OVERVIEW.FMT output corresponding to the example OVER
@@ -4037,6 +4058,10 @@
If the server does not treat the various forms differently, then it
MUST always produce the same results and ignore any argument.
+ If the HDR command is not implemented, the meaning of the output from
+ this command is not specified but it must still meet the above
+ syntactic requirements.
+
8.6.3. Examples
Example of an implementation providing access to only a few headers:
@@ -5012,6 +5037,7 @@
Andrew Gierth
Juergen Helbing
Scott Hollenbeck
+ Urs Janssen
Charles Lindsey
Ade Lovett
David Magda
@@ -5022,6 +5048,7 @@
Howard Swinehart
Ruud van Tol
Jeffrey Vinocur
+ Eric Warmelink
The author thanks them all and apologises to anyone omitted.
@@ -5211,6 +5238,21 @@
simple sequence number or based on the date and time that the article
arrived. When handling email or Netnews articles, a Message-ID
header SHOULD be added to ensure global consistency and uniqueness.
+
+ Note that, because the message-id might not have been derived from
+ the Message-ID header in the article, the following example is
+ legitimate:
+
+ [C] HEAD <45223423 at example.com>
+ [S] 221 0 <45223423 at example.com>
+ [S] Path: pathost!demo!whitehouse!not-for-mail
+ [S] Message-ID: <1234 at example.net>
+ [S] From: "Demo User" <nobody at example.net>
+ [S] Newsgroups: misc.test
+ [S] Subject: I am just a test article
+ [S] Date: 6 Oct 1998 04:38:40 -0500
+ [S] Organization: An Example Net, Uncertain, Texas
+ [S] .
A.3. Article posting
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