The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Network News Transfer Protocol ' <draft-ietf-nntpext-base-27.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the NNTP Extensions Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Scott Hollenbeck and Ted Hardie. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-nntpext-base-27.txt Technical Summary The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) has been in use in the Internet for a decade and remains one of the most popular protocols (by volume) in use today. This document is a replacement for RFC 977 and officially updates the protocol specification. It clarifies some vagueness in RFC 977, includes some new base functionality, and provides a specific mechanism to add standardized extensions to NNTP. Working Group Summary The NNTPEXT WG achieved consensus on this document. The working group revised the document significantly after IESG review took place in April, 2004. A second IETF last call was requested in May 2005 to review the working group's revisions. Protocol Quality Scott Hollenbeck reviewed this specification for the IESG. This document was reviewed by Russ Allbery, comparing it against the existing INN NNTP implementation. INN intends to make the necessary changes to fully implement this protocol. It has also been reviewed by other NNTP server and client authors in the NNTPEXT WG group and by participants in the news.software.nntp Usenet newsgroup. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
