Re: draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-02

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <87u0qomtad.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>This is what my original text about gatewaying said, long, long ago, so I
>don't understand why we're even discussing it.  It's completely outside
>the scope of our document to specify how gateways into other media should
>deal with the shortcomings of that media.  All we can say is what's
>important to Usenet and leave it to the person writing the gateway, or to
>a separate specification aimed only at gatewaying.

Indeed so. The text in the current draft contains various SHOULD/MUST
[NOT] provisions. It also tries to be helpful by explaining why these
provisions are necessary, and gives a few hints where it is not obvious
how some provision might be implemented (including a rather full example
of one particular gateway). I think it makes it clear that gateway
implementors need to have a thorough understanding of the foibles of the
"other medium", and that there is no "one size fits all" solution.

There is no mention of writing stuff into bodies (so I am not sure how we
came to be dicussing that), except for one suggestion that the news
message-id should be included in a "comment" if there is nowhere else to
put it (though that might turn out to be of more use to human debuggers
that to automated loop detectors).

The whole of this text is little changed from what Russ wrote years ago,
and I see no reason to make any significant change to it now.

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