Network News Transport Protocol (nntp) 
































Charter































Status: Concluded October, 1993 































































Chair(s):































































 Eliot Lear 































































Description of Working Group:































This group will study and review the issues involved with netnews































transport over the Internet.  Originally released as an RFC in































February of 1986, NNTP is one of the most widely implemented































elective protocol.  As of this writing, the protocol has just































passed its fifth birthday, and has not been updated once.































































Over the years several enhancements have been suggested, and several































have even been widely implemented.  The intent of this working group 































will be to encode the more popular and plausible enhancements into an































Internet standards-track protocol.  Included in the initial list of































changes to be considered are the following:































































(1) User level and site designated authentication methods;































































(2) Binary transfer capability;































































(3) Minimization of line turnaround; and































































(4) Stronger article selection capability.































































It is expected that public domain software will be released































concurrently with an RFC, demonstrating the protocol enhancements.