Re: #1416: USEPRO 3.9: Reinjection and Injection-Date

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <JCMs2o.EuG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Forrest J. Cavalier III" <forrest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Charles Lindsey wrote:


>>Reinjection similarly can be assured of not creating loops simply
>>by preserving the identity of the article (both Message-ID and Date header
>>fields) when reinjecting.



>>Hence it follows that if we were to make the rules for Injection-Date
>>exactly the same as the current rules for Date, it would result in a
>>system no different from the present situation, except for an increase in
>>the staleness margin for late-injected articles.



>Sure, after the flag day.

What flag day? The whole idea is that, in the interim period until
Injection-Date is widely acted upon, agents will calculate staleness using
Date. Since that is exactly what happens at present, the situation will be
no different/worse than at present. But, as Injection-Date comes to be be
recognized, things will get better, insofar as some articles that
currently fail to propagate well will propagate better. The improvement is
gradual, but nevertheless monotonic.

>Since that won't happen, re-injectors would rely on the false statements in
>USEPRO that tell them Injection-Date is honored, when the non-upgraded servers
>still look at Date.

USEPRO will make no such statement (well, Usepro-06 did not, because it
explicitly said what I have just said above).

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