Working-Drafts 

•  DIFFS usefor-usepro-08-from-7

•  DIFFS usefor-usepro-06-from-5

Latest Complete Drafts

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-08.txt                 Netnews Architecture and Protocols (July 1 2007)

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-11.txt                  News Article Format (October 2006) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-useage-01.txt                 Usenet Best Practice (Mar 14 2005) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-useage-01.unpaged       Usenet Best Practice (Mar 14 2005) - Not paginated

•  draft-lindsey-usefor-signed-01.txt            Signed Headers in Mail and Netnews (Sep 2001) - Paginated

•  draft-lindsey-usefor-signed-01.unpaged  Signed Headers in Mail and Netnews (Sep 2001) - Not paginated

Previous Usefor Internet-Drafts

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-07.txt                 Netnews Architecture and Protocols (January 3 2007)

•  draft-allbery-usefor-usepro-00.txt           Netnews Architecture and Protocols (November 30 2006)

•  Recommendations for generating Message IDs

•  Cancel-Locks in Usenet articles.

•  Guidelines for the Generation of Message IDs and Similar Unique Identifiers

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-06.txt                 News Article Architecture and Protocols (November 2006) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-06.unpaged       News Article Architecture and Protocols (November 2006) - Not Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-10.txt                  News Article Format (Sep 17 2006) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-09.txt                  News Article Format (Aug 28 2006) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-08.txt                  News Article Format (May 22 2006) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-07.txt                  News Article Format (Mar 5 2006) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-05.txt                 News Article Architecture and Protocols (Jan 6 2006) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-05.unpaged       News Article Architecture and Protocols (Jan 6 2006) - Not Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-06.txt                  News Article Format (Dec 16 2005) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-04.txt                 News Article Architecture and Protocols (Jul 15 2005) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-04.unpaged         News Article Architecture and Protocols (Jul 15 2005) - Not paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-05.txt                  News Article Format (Jul 8 2005) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-03.txt                 News Article Architecture and Protocols (Feb 15 2005) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-03.unpaged         News Article Architecture and Protocols (Feb 15 2005) - Not paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-04.txt                  News Article Format (May 24 2005) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-03.txt                  News Article Format (Apr 6 2005) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-02.txt                  News Article Format (Nov 23 2004) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-useage-00.txt                  Usenet Best Practice (May 27 2004) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-useage-00.unpaged         Usenet Best Practice (May 27 2004) - Not paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-02.txt                 News Article Architecture and Protocols (Dec 3 2004) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-02.unpaged         News Article Architecture and Protocols (Dec 3 2004) - Not paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-01.txt                 News Article Architecture and Protocols (Sep 20 2004) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-01.unpaged         News Article Architecture and Protocols (Sep 20 2004) - Not paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-01.txt                  News Article Format (Sep 14 2004) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-00.txt                 News Article Architecture and Protocols (Aug 31 2004) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usepro-00.unpaged         News Article Architecture and Protocols (Aug 31 2004) - Not paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-00.txt                  News Article Format (Jul 11 2004) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-13.01.unpaged    News Article Format and Transmission (Jun 17 2004)

•                                                               - Never published as  an ID

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-13.txt                  News Article Format (May 14, 2003) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-13.unpaged         News Article Format (May 14, 2003) - Not paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-12.txt                  News Article Format (Nov 24, 2003) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-12.unpaged         News Article Format (Nov 24, 2003) - Not paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-11.txt                  News Article Format (Jun 27, 2003) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-11.unpaged         News Article Format (Jun 27, 2003) - Not paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-10.txt                  News Article Format (Apr 03, 2003) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-10.unpaged         News Article Format (Apr 03, 2003) - Not paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-09.txt                  News Article Format (Feb 27, 2003) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-09.unpaged         News Article Format (Feb 27, 2003) - Not paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-08.txt         News Article Format (Aug 20, 2002) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-07.txt         News Article Format (May 3, 2002) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-06.txt         News Article Format (Nov 28, 2001) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-05.txt         News Article Format (Jul 6, 2001) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-04.txt         News Article Format (Apr 6, 2001) - Paginated

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-03.txt          News Article Format (Feb 14 2000)

•  draft-ietf-usefor-article-02.txt          News Article Format (Mar 17 1999)

UseFor List Charter

See the list's charter if you are interested in learning more about the working group and how to subscribe to its mailing list.

Discussion References

• Analysis of Issue #1416

• Comparison of GNKSA and USEAGE

• Differences between RFC 2822 and Usefor

• The 'news' URL scheme - IETF draft-gilman-news-url-02 - expired

• The 'news' URL scheme - Current work on the 'news' URL scheme, to replace RFC 1738

• How to authenticate cancel messages today

• Cert -- Certificate Header

• Certificates for USENET authentication

• Certificate FAQ

• USENET Certification Permission Language - Preliminary

• Distribution

• Error Control Message and Errors-to header

• Error Reporting

• Header Extensibility

• Goals and Principles for USENET design

• Cancel Lock vs. Public Key signed cancel

• How Certificates Might be Issued

• Article Path

• Article Names and NAME control message

• Path -- Article Path

• USENET-Format Poll

• USENET security -- needs and goals

• Sig-Len -- Length of Personal Signature

• Signed -- Digital Signature of Article

• Digital Signature using MIME

• Supersedes & Replaces -- Updating and correcting articles

• SPKI based USENET Certification Permission Language - Preliminary

• Newsgroup Modes

• Topics -- Subclassifications within newsgroups

• FTN-Internet Gateways by Martin Junius - gatewaying Nessage-IDs to and from Fidonet

General References

• Son-of-1036 (Postscript) - (Text) - (Extended HTML version)

• NoCeM

• Usenet References

• Read This Before You Write a Newsreader, News Transport System, etc

• The "Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval" for Usenet Software

• PGPMoose README

• Standards work on HTML in e-mail, email news and mail headers

• Infinite Ink's Mail, News and General Messaging

• W3C, HTML Threading in email

• Usenet Moderators Handbook

• Usenet Sources Newsgroup Moderation

• Search Internet Drafts

• Unicode.org

• Internet Mail Consortium

RFCs

This is a collection of RFCs that were thought to be particularly relevant to the work of the Usefor Working Group.
A more complete list of RFCs relevant to Internet Mail and related topics is maintained here by IMC.

• Usenet News

  • RFC 850 - Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages (obsoleted by RFC 1036)

  • RFC 977 - Network News Transfer Protocol

  • RFC 1036 - Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages

  • RFC 2980 - Common NNTP Extensions

  
   

• SMTP

  • RFC 1869 - SMTP Service Extensions

  • RFC 1870 - SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration

  • RFC 1891 - SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications

  • RFC 1893 - Enhanced Mail System Status Codes

  • RFC 1895 - SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting

  • RFC 2034 - SMTP Service Extension for Returning Enhanced Error Codes

  • RFC 2487 - SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS

  • RFC 2554 - SMTP Service Extension for Authentication

  • RFC 2821 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

  • RFC 2822 - Internet Message Format

  
   

• MIME

  • RFC 1847 - Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted

  • RFC 1848 - MIME Object Security Services

  • RFC 2015 - MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

  • RFC 2045 - MIME Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies

  • RFC 2046 - MIME Part Two: Media Types

  • RFC 2047 - MIME Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text

  • RFC 2048 - MIME Part Four: Registration Procedures

  • RFC 2049 - MIME Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples

  • RFC 3676 - The Text/Plain and DelSp Format Parameters

  
   

• Unicode

  • RFC 1641 - Using Unicode with MIME

  • RFC 2044 - UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646 (obsoleted by RFC 2279)

  • RFC 2152 - UTF-7 - A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode

  • RFC 2279 - UTF-8 - A transformation format of ISO 10646

  • RFC 2781 - UTF-16 - A encoding of ISO 10646

  • RFC 2482 - Language Tagging in Unicode Plain Text

  
   

• IDNA

  • RFC 3490 - Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)

  • RFC 3491 - Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)

  • RFC 3492 - Punycode: A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for use with Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)

• Misc.

  • RFC 820 - Assigned Numbers

  • RFC 976 - UUCP Mail Interchange Format Standard

  • RFC 1034 - DOMAIN NAMES - CONCEPTS AND FACILITIES

  • RFC 1123 - Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Application and Support

  • RFC 1153 - Digest Message Format

  • RFC 1413 - Identification Protocol

  • RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators (URL)

  • RFC 1855 - Netiquette Guidelines

  • RFC 1991 - PGP Message Exchange Formats

  • RFC 2026 - The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3

  • RFC 2076 - Common Internet Message Headers

  • RFC 2111 - Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators

  • RFC 2119 - Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels

  • RFC 2142 - MAILBOX NAMES FOR COMMON SERVICES, ROLES AND FUNCTIONS

  • RFC 2234 - Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF

  • RFC 2373 - IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture

  • RFC 2606 - Reserved Top Level DNS Names

  • RFC 2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

  
   

• Internet RFC/STD/FYI/BCP Archives

NNTP

• NNTP Extensions Working Group Charter

• RFC 3977 - Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)

• RFC 4642 - Using Transport Layer Security (TLS) with Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)

• RFC 4643 - News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Extension for Authentication

• RFC 4644 - Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Extension for Streaming Feeds

• IETF NNTP Working Group Home

• NNTP Full-text Search Extension Draft - Expired

Have a reference you'd like to see added ?
If so, please drop a note to Charles Lindsey