Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Additions to LIST Command
RFC 6048
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RFC - Proposed Standard
(November 2010; No errata)
Was draft-elie-nntp-list-additions (individual in app area)
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Author | Julien ÉLIE | ||
Last updated | 2018-12-20 | ||
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IESG | IESG state | RFC 6048 (Proposed Standard) | |
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) J. Elie Request for Comments: 6048 November 2010 Updates: 2980, 3977 Category: Standards Track ISSN: 2070-1721 Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Additions to LIST Command Abstract This document defines a set of enhancements to the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) that allow a client to request extended information from NNTP servers regarding server status, policy, and other aspects of local configuration. These enhancements are made as new keywords to the existing LIST capability described in RFC 3977. This memo updates and formalizes the LIST DISTRIBUTIONS and LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS commands defined in RFC 2980. It also adds the LIST COUNTS, LIST MODERATORS, and LIST MOTD commands, and specifies additional values returned by the existing LIST ACTIVE command for the status of a newsgroup. Status of This Memo This is an Internet Standards Track document. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6048. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2010 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must Elie Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 6048 NNTP Additions to LIST Command November 2010 include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2. Author's Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. New LIST Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1. Advertising the New LIST Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2. LIST COUNTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2.1. Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2.2. Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.2.3. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3. LIST DISTRIBUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.3.1. Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.3.2. Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.3.3. Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.4. LIST MODERATORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.4.1. Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.4.2. Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.4.3. Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.5. LIST MOTD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.5.1. Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.5.2. Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.5.3. Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.6. LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.6.1. Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.6.2. Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2.6.3. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3. Additions to LIST ACTIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.1. New Status Field Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.2. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4. Augmented BNF Syntax for These Additions to the LIST Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 4.1. Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 4.2. Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5. Internationalization Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 8. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Show full document text