This is an OPS-DIR review of “Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS)in the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)” (draft-elie-nntp-tls-recommendations-03) This draft proposes updates to RFC 4642 to improve the security of NNTP. I did not know that NNTP was still in much use, but if it is, then this draft proposes some useful updates to RFC 4642. I do not see any particular operational issues with the proposals but I do not know why this draft exists. Most of what this draft does is to propose specific wording changes for RFC 4642. What I do not understand is why the changes are not done by making a 4642bis and publishing a new RFC that obsoletes RFC 4642 - it would be a lot easier on anyone who wants to implement the technology to not have to mentally merge two different RFCs Scott