Ftp-WG: Re: MLST draft - NUL CR LF again

At 07:10 AM 4/25/2002, Gregory A Lundberg wrote:
>OK.  Obviously we're reading different versions of RFC 1123.
>I got mine from rfc-editor.org and here's what is says on page 21:
...
>       The Telnet end-of-line sequence CR LF MUST be used to send
>       Telnet data that is not terminal-to-computer (e.g., for Server
>       Telnet sending output, or the Telnet protocol incorporated
>       another application protocol).
>
>Nowhere in there does it make ANY requirement that end-of-line may
>only be represented by CR LF.
...
>The fourth tells us that when sent over a Telnet connection from a
>server-FTP, only CR LF may be sent.
...
>   The server-FTP MUST transmit the sequence CR LF to mark the end-
>    of-line.  [Fourth paragraph, explicitly.]

That's not how I read the fourth paragraph of RFC 1123, section 3.3.1.  I 
read it as saying that when "the Telnet protocol is incorporated in another 
protocol", as we have here, "the Telnet end-of-line sequence CR LF MUST be 
used".

Alun.
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