Network News Transport Protocol (nntp)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 06/05/2000

 Current Status: Concluded Working Group

 Chair(s):
     Eliot Lear  <lear@cisco.com>

 Applications Area Director(s):
     Ned Freed  <ned.freed@mrochek.com>
     Patrik Faltstrom  <paf@cisco.com>

 Applications Area Advisor:
     Ned Freed  <ned.freed@mrochek.com>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:ietf-nntp@turbo.bio.net
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     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 most widely implemented
elective protocol.  As of this writing, the protocol has just
passed its fifth birthday, and has not been updated once.

Over the years several enhancements have been suggested, and several
have even been widely implemented.  The intent of this working group 
will be to encode the more popular and plausible enhancements into an
Internet standards-track protocol.  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:

   Done         Define scope of work. 

   Done         Submit Internet-Draft for review and comment. 

   Done         Possibly meet at USENIX for further comment. 

   Done         Meet at IETF for further comment. 

   AUG 91       Submit Internet-Draft to IESG. 


 Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet-Drafts.

 Request For Comments:

  None to date.