Editor's Note: Minutes received 12/7/92 CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Eliot Lear/SGI Minutes of the Network News Transport Protocol Working Group (NNTP) This meeting was largely organizational, and fairly short in duration. There is a new NNTP v2 draft which will be posted early next week. A few tweaks may yet be needed, but it is otherwise done. With that we turned our efforts to reader issues, spending the rest of the meeting on essentially three issues: 1. The relationship between news and mail; does IMAP already have the facilities that would otherwise be required for an NNRP? 2. To what end should a reader protocol be concerned with ACL management? o Authentication issues. 3. How general should the search mechanism be? Should discussion trees be handled using it or using something separate? We were essentially talking about something on this order: SEARCH A method might be something like BODY-TEXT and text could be something like a quoted string containing ``Operational Experience With TUBA''. Issue [1] has essentially been deferred until we could figure out what the remmail Group was doing. Issue [2] has been assigned to Ted Tso. Issue [3] has been assigned to Mel Pleasant. Ted and Mel are going to produce documents for the Working Group by January 20th, going into some detail, with the goal being a combined document for the March time-frame. There is a forth issue, which is whether the reader stuff should go into NNTP as a set of extensions, or as a new protocol. If we go ahead with a separate protocol, it was stated without objection that we could pursue an experimental track, and upgrade if others like the results enough to implement the protocol. A final decision on this topic doesn't need to be made until March. A separate mailing list will be formed to discuss the reader document(s). Attendees 1 Vikas Aggarwal vikas@jvnc.net David Conklin conklin@jvnc.net Wesley Craig wes@umich.edu Chuck Cranor chuck@maria.wustl.edu Peter DiCamillo Peter_DiCamillo@brown.edu Erik Fair fair@apple.com Terry Gray gray@cac.washington.edu David Katinsky dmk@rutgers.edu Eliot Lear lear@sgi.com John Myers jgm+@cmu.edu Chris Newman chrisn+@cmu.edu Rakesh Patel patel@noc.rutgers.edu Mel Pleasant pleasant@hardees.rutgers.edu Tim Seaver tas@concert.net Mark Smith mcs@umich.edu Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu 2