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