[NNTP] News and nntp URIs

[Charles Lindsey]

There are now two drafts for your consideration:

draft-lindsey-news-nntp-uri-00.txt
draft-ellermann-news-nntp-uri-00.txt

The first is exactly what I put before you a few months back, except that
the '!' has been removed as a possible newsgroup-name character. You all
seemed happy with that text last time.

It is based on our present NNTP drafts.
It uses the definitions of newsgroup-name and message-id from our NNTP drafts.
It allows wildmats as in our NNTP drafts, so you can write:
   <news://news.example.com/*.test,!de.test>

It is based on RFC 977.
It uses the definition of newsgroup-name from USEFOR.
It uses Yet Another Definition of message-id, loosely based on RFC 1036.
It supports only a single '*' as a wildcard, as in RFC 1738 and meaning
only "all available newsgroups", and points out that if you omit it
entirely the meaning is unchanged. A vague mention that some clients might
support "different forms of wildcard notations", which is a nonsense
because it will usually be the server that determines what is supported.

Take your pick. COmments should really be sent to the uri at w3.org list, but
I will pass on anything that is posted here.

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