From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@algonet.se)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 14:38:06 CST
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> 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).
I asked two questions, and got one answer, so I'm not sure how to
interpret this. If Diablo, Cyclone and Typhoon does not even support
cancellations, I would certainly not expect them to support Replaces.
But in such case they are non-compliant by design, and it's not really
an argument that they will not be able to handle Replaces. Or am I
missing something?
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se