ietf-nntp CHARSET isues with new draft.
Nat Ballou <NatBa@ims.microsoft.com> Fri, 05 September 1997 18:52 UTC
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From: Nat Ballou <NatBa@ims.microsoft.com>
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Subject: ietf-nntp CHARSET isues with new draft.
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 11:45:48 -0700
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I may have missed the discussion on this, but here goes ... The CHARSET command in Stan's latest draft seems a bit backwards. The draft describes a CHARSET command that clients issue the charset they want to use, and servers come back with yes/no type response. Seems like a negotation model would work better. That is, The server returns a list of supported charsets, and the client can try to pick the best one. I used this type of model in one of my earlier search drafts. Comments? Nat
- ietf-nntp CHARSET isues with new draft. Nat Ballou