On Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2008, Thomas Reinke wrote:
> #2 Insufficient knowledge of use scenarios to form a vote opinion, but
> comments as follows:
>
> NSR is, AFAIK, not broken w.r.t semi-colons. The actual NTP
> protocol has the same issue of being line oriented - the server
> replaces all semi-colons with newlines. NSR just carries this
> issue through to its code. Thus removing NSR does not solve
> the semi-colon issue, that can only be done by adding
> support to both client and server to support escaped semi-colons.
>
> As such, using the semi-colon problem as a justification to remove
> NSR doesn't make sense.
Indeed it is only a first step to remove the design flaw.
Fixing the protocol bug should be one of the next CRs (which will
have much more impact on compatibility.
I've extended the CR accordingly.
Best
Jan
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