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Editor's Note: Minutes received 12/7/92
CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Eliot Lear/SGI
Minutes of the Network News Transport Protocol Working Group (NNTP)
This meeting was largely organizational, and fairly short in duration.
There is a new NNTP v2 draft which will be posted early next week. A
few tweaks may yet be needed, but it is otherwise done.
With that we turned our efforts to reader issues, spending the rest of
the meeting on essentially three issues:
1. The relationship between news and mail; does IMAP already have the
facilities that would otherwise be required for an NNRP?
2. To what end should a reader protocol be concerned with ACL
management?
o Authentication issues.
3. How general should the search mechanism be? Should discussion
trees be handled using it or using something separate? We were
essentially talking about something on this order:
SEARCH <method> <text>
A method might be something like BODY-TEXT and text could be
something like a quoted string containing ``Operational Experience
With TUBA''.
Issue [1] has essentially been deferred until we could figure out what
the remmail Group was doing. Issue [2] has been assigned to Ted Tso.
Issue [3] has been assigned to Mel Pleasant. Ted and Mel are going to
produce documents for the Working Group by January 20th, going into some
detail, with the goal being a combined document for the March
time-frame.
There is a forth issue, which is whether the reader stuff should go into
NNTP as a set of extensions, or as a new protocol. If we go ahead with
a separate protocol, it was stated without objection that we could
pursue an experimental track, and upgrade if others like the results
enough to implement the protocol. A final decision on this topic
doesn't need to be made until March.
A separate mailing list will be formed to discuss the reader
document(s).
Attendees
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Vikas Aggarwal vikas@jvnc.net
David Conklin conklin@jvnc.net
Wesley Craig wes@umich.edu
Chuck Cranor chuck@maria.wustl.edu
Peter DiCamillo Peter_DiCamillo@brown.edu
Erik Fair fair@apple.com
Terry Gray gray@cac.washington.edu
David Katinsky dmk@rutgers.edu
Eliot Lear lear@sgi.com
John Myers jgm+@cmu.edu
Chris Newman chrisn+@cmu.edu
Rakesh Patel patel@noc.rutgers.edu
Mel Pleasant pleasant@hardees.rutgers.edu
Tim Seaver tas@concert.net
Mark Smith mcs@umich.edu
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu
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