Extending news to EAI
"Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> Tue, 02 February 2010 05:13 UTC
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There is now an experimental protocol for UTF-8 headers in Email (RFC5335 and its relations). This was the product of the IMA WG. There has been recent discussion of applying this to Netnews, and the conclusion seems to be that the IMA WG is not the place to do this, and that a private draft would be the way to do this. However, this list would be a reasonable place to discuss it. Essentially, under this protocol, UTF-8 may be freely used in Email headers, but a downgrading mechanism is needed whenever mail passes to a server that does not advertise the UTF8SMTP capability. This is much what the USEFOR WG wanted to do in its earlier days, but the decision was then taken to postpone it until the base documents were complete, and then to bring it up again as an Experimental protocol. So maybe now is the time to embark on it. It is much easier with Netnews than with Email, since the underlying transport (whether NNTP or UUCP) is already 8-bit clean. I would not expect it to become the norm on the Big-8 groups for quite some time, but it would be very useful for National hierarchies, such as the Scandinavian ones where the inability to have Newsgroup Names with their own special characters in them is a right pain (apparently). So the experimental protocol would start off with the extensions allowed by RFC5535, and then add UTF-8 in the Newsgroups header. It would be up to individual hierarchies to encourage deployment of the experiment within their groups. It has already been established that the existing transport mechanisms will move such articles around without problem. No downgrading is envisaged except at gateways to email (at which point the mechanisms already agreed for EAI/IMA would apply). But existing servers would cope fairly well without modification, at least until UTF-8 newsgroup-names were introduced. Clearly, anyone expecting to read such articles would need a suitable client. Some clients will already display them (Opera, for example). otherwise, it would be up to people to install suitable user agents if they wanted to see these articles properly (existing agents might display such headers in a garbled form (which might be good enough in languages which wers based on Latin alphabets). Bodies would still expect to be covered by a Content-Type: test/plain; charset=utf-8. With utf-8 newsgroup-names, again people who wanted to subscribe to such groups would need suitable clients, but existing servers would serve them once they had been persuaded to store them in their active lists. That would require control messages that created such groups to be accepted, and also articles submitted to moderated groups to be forwarded, so in practice people who wanted to subscribe to such groups would need to connect to servers which had been upgraded to cope. But the important point is that articles would still propagate correctly through non-upgraded servers. Some early USEFOR drafts show how the Newsgroups header was to be extended. In particular, it required some very strict normalization, so that a simple byte-by-byte comparison of newsgroup-names would always work. Note that an experimental group dk.test.utf8-æøå (which should show up in UTF-8 clients properly, althoug this message is somposed in iso-8859-1) already exists on several servers, notably on news.dotsrc.org, and this message is crossposted there, and if a thread develops there, then well and good. But people on that list might do better to subscribe to the usefor mailing list (see http://www.imc.org/ietf-usefor/index.html). -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5
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