- From: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:11:14 -0400
- To: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>, "Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>, uri@w3.org
At 8:39 AM -0700 8/25/04, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote: >OK, I need specific suggestions for what to do. In what form are you editing this. Is an edited .txt of the full draft a friendly input form for you and you take the diffs, or what other form would you prefer? >Should I go back to the 1738 definitions? Most likely not. >If not, exactly what do you think should be in the new document? I think we need some implementation information. For this we need some test material. Charles, can you come up with proposed RFC text and/or some test instances of hyperlinks with news: and nntp: URIs as href values? Fixing the grammar so we haven't broken nntp: is at the top of the list. I could probably grok and fix your other bug reports. I will try to help if it comes to that. I tried to ask on the WAI-IG list "do we particularly need to keep this up?" and got some firm affirmatives. Of course it is not clear whether people thought I meant News as a service or 'news' URIs as a link notation. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2004JulSep/thread.html#356 Al > >--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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