ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37th IETF

[Brian Hernacki]

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