From: Elmar K. Bins (ekb@ivm.net)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 11:21:50 CST
grobe@netins.net (Jonathan Grobe) wrote:
> Note that NNTP does include pull options in the various LIST commands
> (LIST ACTIVE, LIST NEWSGROUPS...) so it would be possible to extend
> this set of commands. However you can't do NNTP extensions until the
> base is standardized and it looks like that will be several years if
> ever as the NNTP working group is close to dead. Thus something like
> NAS is a better option to actually get something accomplished.
I just wanted to mention NHNS here, which is a nice (and working)
solution that only lacks hierarchy maintainers' participation.
NAS may be nice, but NHNS (a RIPE nnwg project) actually works without
inventing new protocols. Since it's based on DNS it will be implicitly
secure if you use DNSSEC.
http://galore.convex.es/newsbone/nhns/
Elmar.
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