ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37th IETF
Brian Hernacki
bhern at netscape.com
Wed Dec 18 10:46:13 PST 1996
Chris Lewis wrote:
> The defacto standards (INN + Cnews/Reference NNTP implementation) transport
> 8-bit article bodies unmolested. I see no reason to continue to enforce
> this _unnecessary_ archaism which has already been purposefully abandoned.
>
> We don't need to deal with charsets - NNTP is a transport mechanism, and
> isn't involved in display issues. The only place where it matters is in
> the headers - where we may simply wish to take a similar bailout as,
> say, Posix C did, and insist that the headers are, say, UTF8 (where can
> I find a listing of this?) or Latin-1. Indeed, we may well be able
> to get away with insisting that the keywords are the current ASCII
> encodings, and most of/all of the keyword values are 8-bit.
OK...my bad. I thought you were proposing adding alot of charset and
other i18n supprt stuff to NNTP. I'm all for at least clarifying the use
of 8-bit vs 7 bit. I think this does fall under documenting current
de-fact standards and would go a long way to i18n support.
--brian
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