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- Editor's Note: Minutes received 12/7/92
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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Eliot Lear/SGI
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- Minutes of the Network News Transport Protocol Working Group (NNTP)
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- This meeting was largely organizational, and fairly short in duration.
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- 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.
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- With that we turned our efforts to reader issues, spending the rest of
- the meeting on essentially three issues:
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- 1. The relationship between news and mail; does IMAP already have the
- facilities that would otherwise be required for an NNRP?
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- 2. To what end should a reader protocol be concerned with ACL
- management?
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- o Authentication issues.
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- 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''.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- A separate mailing list will be formed to discuss the reader
- document(s).
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- 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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