Re: Last Call: draft-ellermann-news-nntp-uri (The 'news' and 'nntp' URI Schemes) to Proposed Standard

In local.ietf.announce you write:

>The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider
>the following document:

>- 'The 'news' and 'nntp' URI Schemes '
>   <draft-ellermann-news-nntp-uri-08.txt> as a Proposed Standard

This request is premature. There has been some discussion of this proposal
on the ietf-nntp mailing list (see thread commencing at
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-eai-mailto-00.txt) to which
the proponent has not seen fit to reply, though he was aware of it and
stated on the uri mailing list (uri@w3.org) on Dec 28th that he would be
doing so.

Moreover, his draft contains some klunky syntax of message identifiers
which is almost (but not quite) the same as that in
draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-12.txt.

However, in view of changes in the syntax of message identifiers proposed
in draft-resnick-2822upd-06.txt, which is on the verge of IETF Last Call,
it is quite likely that similar proposals will now be made for that Usefor
draft, even though it has nominally been accepted for publication by the
IESG.

This Uri draft should, therefore, wait until the syntax of message
identifiers in both Email and Netnews has stabilized.

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