From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 17:50:03 CDT
Ralph Babel <rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de> writes:
> Russ, I think that you - and many others on this list - are missing the
> point of Dirk's message. While we probably all agree that short IDs are
> desirable and that the limits need to be _documented_ somehow, these
> limits are _not_ an intrinsic part of the netnews message _format_ -
> which, after all and contrary to popular belief, is still what we're
> working on.
I do understand your point. What I'm looking for, as an implementor, is
some standard interoperability guideline that I can follow. INN currently
allows unlimited length message IDs; this is causing interoperability
problems in practice. I want to limit the length, and I'd like to limit
it to something agreed upon in a standard of some sort rather than just
picking something so as to minimize additional interoperability problems.
Whether here, there, wherever, I just want some document to unambiguously
state either a length restriction or remove the length restriction so that
I have some degree of assurance that everyone else will be doing the same
thing.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>