nntp-extensions Re: ietf-nntp NNTP SEARCH extension internet-draft available

[Keith Moore]

> Are you suggesting we disband the NNTP work just started? 

Not at all.  It's clearly desirable to document the existing NNTP 
protcol, and to document the extension mechanism, and to improve
the server-to-server replication protocol.  I don't expect NNTP
to disappear as a reader protocol, either; just that newer, fancier
clients might want to use IMAP instead.

But the working group should seriously consider whether it's worth
extending the NNTP reader protocol, and if it chooses to do so, whether
those extensions should closely resemble similar facilities in
IMAP.

I'm not at all sure that NNTP is the right answer, but I think it's
quite attractive and worth considering, and that this group is the 
right place to have that discussion.

Keith