nntp-extensions Renaming the SEARCH extensions

[Nat Ballou]

Brian,

We spoke about this earlier ...

It turns out that Microsoft will ship in the next week an
implementation of the search draft that will use the
extension name SEARCH.  This release has
been out in beta for several months using the SEARCH
extension name, since this has been the extension
name used in all versions of the search draft.

As I'm sure there will be other changes to the search
draft both as a result of RFC977bis work as well as
discussions of the search draft on the full mailing list, I view
this as a minor issue.  Specifically, both Netscape and
Microsoft will likely have to release another update to cover
changes as a result of these discussions.

Thanks,

Nat

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Hernacki <bhern at netscape.com>
To: nntp-extensions at academ.com <nntp-extensions at academ.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 1997 10:22 PM
Subject: nntp-extensions Renaming the SEARCH extensions


>I know people are going to hate this idea but I want to change the
>extensions name for full text search.
>
>Right now the extenesion name is SEARCH. Unfortunately this conflicts
>with an existing experimental extension name already used... by
>Netscape. I realize this is something we probably should have avoided in
>the first place, but what's done is done.
>
>In order to avoid the numerous problems having different implementations
>of searching colliding, I'd like to propose that the final extension
>namefor search be FTSEARCH (full text search).
>
>Comments?
>
>--brian