Re: application/news-message-id

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <45DF3346.58F3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Frank Ellermann <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Charles Lindsey wrote:

>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ellermann-news-nntp-uri-05#section-8.3

>> Ah! You are wanting to change it from an RFC 4288 registrartion to an
>> RFC 4289 registration. That makes sense.

>Yes, see http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.types/799

>> But you would still have to write a proper 4289 template for it.

>What's a "proper 4289 template" ?  I've posted a pro forma review request
>on the ietf-types mailing list as specified in chapter 2.2.2 of RFC 4289:

Hmmm! RFC 4289 doesn't seem to provide for any templates. So when IANA
accepts a registration how does it record it? 

Ah! I see than an RFC MUST exist. But there is no standard format
(template) in which it must be described, which is unusual.

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