[NNTP] Re: Nearly there
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Fri Aug 11 02:12:02 PDT 2006
Russ Allbery said:
>> "Note that it is likely that the article number limit of [4,294,967,295]
>> will be increased by a future revision or extension to this
>> specification. While servers MUST NOT send article numbers greater than
>> this current limit, client and server developers are advised to use
>> internal structures and datatypes capable of handling larger values in
>> anticipation of such a change."
>
> That seems better to me.
I can live with that.
So, when I get the alert from the RFC Editor:
- change 1 from my original email (remove limit of 12 characters) to be made;
- wording above to be added;
- either:
- article number limit left unchanged at 2^32-1
- article number limit changed to 2^31-1.
But which? I still prefer the change, as it better represents what servers
can rely on the client understanding.
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