ietf-nntp Announce: Mailing list for RFC 1036 update created.

[Simon Lyall]

A list has been created (thankyou to Brad and Clari Net) for those
interested in working towards an update of rfc1036. 

The list address is: usenet-format at clari.net

Mail subscribe request to usenet-format-request at clari.net

I have included a Draft Charter for the group below (heavily based on the
nntp group's one). I would guess the first thing would be to get this
charter sorted and then get the group recognised by the IETF.

Please direct all comments to the new list rather than this one.

Simon.

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Please note this is a Draft only.
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Usenet Article Standard Update (news-upd)
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 Chair(s):
      TBA

 Applications Area Director(s):
     Keith Moore  <moore+iesg at cs.utk.edu>
     Harald Alvestrand  <Harald.T.Alvestrand at uninett.no>

 Area Advisor
     TBA

 Mailing lists:
     usenet-format at clari.net
     Mail subscribe request to usenet-format-request at clari.net
     
Description of Working Group:

The Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages, defined in RFC 1036, 
was released in December 1987. Since that time there has been no official 
update published dispute the rapid growth in Usenet and other networks 
that use the RFC1036 protocol.

A draft update to rfc1036 was released by Henry Spencer in June 1994 but 
this was not further pursued and is now itself out of date.

At the present time an urgent need has been identified to formalize and 
document many of the current and proposed extensions to the Usenet 
Article format. Many extensions are only vaguely documented and have 
competing and overlapping alternatives.


The IETF Usenet Update Working Group shall:

1. Revise and publish a standards-track successor to RFC 1036 that
   builds on "Son of 1036" adding and formalizing best 
   current practice and best proposed practice.

2. ?



Goals and Milestones:

   May 97       Identify areas where updates required and write draft 
                standards for inclusion in the main document.

   Jun 97       Produce a revised internet-draft of the Usenet Article 
                Standard.

   Jun-Oct 97   Produce further drafts as needed.

   Nov 97       Submit the revised Usenet Article Standard to the IESG for 
                Proposed Standard status