[NNTP] News and nntp URIs

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:

> 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.

I personally would prefer to see the NNTP URI scheme wait on the
publication of the new base document and then follow the approach that
you're taking of picking up the new NNTP work.  I'm still not sure that
the full wildmat support in the URI is really the best way to go, but I
can't come up with any strong argument against it other than "it looks odd
and I'm not sure how many people will bother using it," which doesn't seem
strong enough.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>