# Re: Minutes for URI

Mitra (mitra@path.net)
Mon, 22 Nov 1993 18:23:05 GMT

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    From: mitra@path.net (Mitra)

    Subject: Re: Minutes for URI

    Message-Id: <CGwoEI.FJ@pandora.sf.ca.us>

    Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1993 18:23:05 GMT

Alan Emtage (bajan@bunyip.com) wrote:
: [Erik Ostrom writes:]
: > Alan Emtage (bajan@bunyip.com) wrote:
: > > - Group decided that the "news" URL should be removed from the
: > > document, and replaced with a valid NNTP: URL. Installed base will
: > > continue to use "news" URL until transition can be made
: > What will the nntp: URL contain? Will server names be permitted? Allowed?
: I think Mitra is the best person to handle this one....

My understanding was that the URL would be sufficient to retrieve a
message from a nntp server by LOCATION. Therefore that it would be - in
URL-bnf:

nntpaddress n n t p : // host / group [ / digits ]

This definition is open to discussion, in particular does the NNTP spec
require that the filename be digits.

Note that [ / digits ] is optional, the form without the digits refers to
the group itself, and would presumably return an index of the group. In
some format specified outside the URL.

- Mitra

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