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- Network News Transport Protocol (nntp)
-
- Charter
-
- Chair(s):
- Eliot Lear <lear@sgi.com>
-
- Applications Area Director(s)
- Brewster Kahle <Brewster@wais.com>
- Erik Huizer <huizer@surfnet.nl>
-
- Mailing lists:
- General Discussion:ietf-nntp@turbo.bio.net
- To Subscribe: ietf-nntp-request@turbo.bio.net
- Archive:
-
- Description of Working Group:
-
- This Group will study and review the issues involved with netnews
- transport over the Internet. Originally released as an RFC in
- February of 1986, NNTP is one of the widest implementations of an
- elective status protocol. As of this writing, the protocol has just
- passed its fifth birthday, not having been updated once.
-
- Over the years several enhancements have been suggested, and several
- have even been implemented widely. The intent of this Working Group
- will be to encode the more popular and plausible enhancements into an
- Internet standard. Included in the initial list of changes to be
- considered are the following:
-
- (1) User level and site designated authentication methods;
- (2) Binary transfer capability;
- (3) Minimization of line turnaround; and
- (4) Stronger article selection capability.
-
- It is expected that public domain software will be released
- concurrently with an RFC, demonstrating the protocol enhancements.
-
-
-
- Goals and Milestones:
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- Done Define scope of work.
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- Done Submit Internet-Draft for review and comment.
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- Done Possibly meet at USENIX for further comment.
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- Done Meet at IETF for further comment.
-
- Aug 91 Submit RFC to IESG.
-
-
- Internet Drafts:
-
- Posted Revised I-D Title <Filename>
- ------ ------- ------------------------------------------
- Sep 91 Dec 92 <draft-ietf-nntp-news-01.txt, .ps>
- Network News Transfer Protocol Version 2: A Protocol for the
- Stream-Based Transmission of News
-
- Request For Comments:
-
- None to date.
-