- From: Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:51:29 +0100
- To: uri@w3.org
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:39:37 -0700, Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
wrote:
> OK, I need specific suggestions for what to do. Should I go back to the
> 1738 definitions? If not, exactly what do you think should be in the new
> document?
I suggest you keep the NEWS and NNTP schemes separate, in the first place,
until we are sure that we have described them correctly. After that, we
can discuss whether and how to combine them. The first thing, therefore,
is to get a correct syntax.
newsURL = "news" ":" [ news-server ]
( newsgroup-name | '*' | message-id )
news-server = "//" server "/"
message-id = id-left "@" id-right
where <id-left> and <id-right> are taken from RFC 2822 (or they might be
taken from USEFOR). But you also need some additional handwaving to
explain why
abcd@example.com
is allowed, but
"abcd"@example.com
and "ab\cd"@example.com
are not (see draft-ietf-nntpext-base-21.txt or USEFOR for why not)
A syntax for <server> can be found in RFC 2396, but it would be necessary
to specify what any <userinfo> might look like (there is a SASL
authentication system for NNTP on the stocks - is there some generic way
to do SASL in URLs?).
The present wording for <newsgroup-name> in RFC 1738 will do for now.
nntpURL = "nntp" ":" news-server newsgroup-name "/" range
news-server = "//" server "/"
range = article-number ["-" [article-number]]
article-number = 1*DIGIT
The syntax for <range> is taken from draft-ietf-nntpext-base-21.txt, and
its semantics can probably be taken from there as well (but we still have
to decide what the URL is supposed to return if there is more than just an
article-number).
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