Netnews Administration System (NAS)
draft-dfncis-netnews-admin-sys-07

Approval announcement
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Announcement

From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>
Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, <iana@iana.org>, ietf-announce@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Experimental RFC to be: 
         draft-dfncis-netnews-admin-sys-08.txt 

The IESG has no problem with the publication of 'Netnews Administration 
System (NAS)' <draft-dfncis-netnews-admin-sys-08.txt> as an Experimental 
RFC. 

The IESG would also like the IRSG or RFC-Editor to review the comments in 
the datatracker 
(https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=view_id&dTag=5009&rfc_flag=0) 
related to this document and determine whether or not they merit 
incorporation into the document. Comments may exist in both the ballot 
and the comment log. 

The IESG contact person is Scott Hollenbeck.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-dfncis-netnews-admin-sys-08.txt


The process for such documents is described at http://www.rfc-editor.org/indsubs.html.

Thank you,

The IESG Secretary

Ballot Text

Technical Summary
 
The Netnews Administration System (NAS) is a framework to simplify the 
administration and usage of network news (also known as Netnews) on the 
Internet. Data for the administration of newsgroups and hierarchies are
kept in a distributed hierarchical database and are available through a
client-server-protocol.

Working Group Summary
 
This document is an individual submission requested for publication
through the RFC Editor.  It is not the product of an IETF working group.
 
Protocol Quality
 
Ned Freed and Scott Hollenbeck reviewed this specification for the IESG.

IESG Note

The IESG thinks that this work is related to IETF work done in the
nntpext and usefor working groups, but this does not prevent publishing.
The IESG asks to have the following IESG Note included in the document:

This RFC is not a candidate for any level of Internet Standard.
The IETF disclaims any knowledge of the fitness of this RFC for
any purpose, and in particular notes that the decision to publish
is not based on IETF review for such things as security,
congestion control or inappropriate interaction with deployed
protocols.  The RFC Editor has chosen to publish this document at
its discretion. Readers of this document should exercise caution
in evaluating its value for implementation and deployment.

RFC Editor Note