Re: Implementability of Replaces?

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From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 18:22:01 CST


Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

>> This basically matches my opinion. I'm highly leery of the Replaces
>> stuff and tried to go through that discussion once before, but without
>> a lot of luck. I think it would be distantly possible for INN in some
>> specific environments to implement what the draft requires, but the
>> details are hairy enough that I wouldn't want to be the person who
>> tried to do it and I'd be surprised if Diablo or Cyclone or the like
>> would find it even that easy.

> Hm, stupid question, but is there any pressing need to implement
> Replaces in a server without readers? Do these systems carry out
> cancellations today?

No, but Diablo supports readers, and for Cyclone read Typhoon (similar
issues apply).

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


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