- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:39:37 -0700
- To: "Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>, uri@w3.org
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? --Paul Hoffman The 1738 definitions are: ---------- 3.6. NEWS The news URL scheme is used to refer to either news groups or individual articles of USENET news, as specified in RFC 1036. A news URL takes one of two forms: news:<newsgroup-name> news:<message-id> A <newsgroup-name> is a period-delimited hierarchical name, such as "comp.infosystems.www.misc". A <message-id> corresponds to the Message-ID of section 2.1.5 of RFC 1036, without the enclosing "<" and ">"; it takes the form <unique>@<full_domain_name>. A message identifier may be distinguished from a news group name by the presence of the commercial at "@" character. No additional characters are reserved within the components of a news URL. If <newsgroup-name> is "*" (as in <URL:news:*>), it is used to refer to "all available news groups". The news URLs are unusual in that by themselves, they do not contain sufficient information to locate a single resource, but, rather, are location-independent. 3.7. NNTP The nntp URL scheme is an alternative method of referencing news articles, useful for specifying news articles from NNTP servers (RFC 977). A nntp URL take the form: nntp://<host>:<port>/<newsgroup-name>/<article-number> where <host> and <port> are as described in Section 3.1. If :<port> is omitted, the port defaults to 119. The <newsgroup-name> is the name of the group, while the <article- number> is the numeric id of the article within that newsgroup. Note that while nntp: URLs specify a unique location for the article resource, most NNTP servers currently on the Internet today are configured only to allow access from local clients, and thus nntp URLs do not designate globally accessible resources. Thus, the news: form of URL is preferred as a way of identifying news articles. ----------
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