RFC 5538: The 'news' and 'nntp' URI Schemes

This memo specifies the 'news' and 'nntp' Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes that were originally defined in RFC 1738. The purpose of this document is…

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Outgoing relationships (21 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Informative reference — RFC 3629: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646
Informative reference — RFC 822: STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGES
Informative reference — RFC 2046: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types
Informative reference — RFC 5322: Internet Message Format
Informative reference — RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
Informative reference — RFC 3987: Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)
Informative reference — RFC 4395: Guidelines and Registration Procedures for New URI Schemes
Informative reference — RFC 2595: Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP
Informative reference — RFC 4289: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures
Informative reference — RFC 4952: Overview and Framework for Internationalized Email
Informative reference — RFC 2980: Common NNTP Extensions
Informative reference — RFC 4642: Using Transport Layer Security (TLS) with Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
Informative reference — RFC 4643: Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Extension for Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 5064: The Archived-At Message Header Field
Informative reference — RFC 4248: The telnet URI Scheme
Informative reference — RFC 1849: "Son of 1036": News Article Format and Transmission
Informative reference — RFC 2017: Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type
Informative reference — RFC 4156: The wais URI Scheme
Informative reference — RFC 4157: The prospero URI Scheme
Informative reference — RFC 4266: The gopher URI Scheme