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RFC Errata System | 28 Dec 2009 14:43

[Technical Errata Reported] RFC5537 (1983)


The following errata report has been submitted for RFC5537,
"Netnews Architecture and Protocols".

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You may review the report below and at:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=5537&eid=1983

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Alfred Hoenes <ah <at> TR-Sys.de>

Section: GLOBAL

Original Text
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(a)  Section 3.10, first paragraph:

   A gateway transforms an article into the native message format of
   another medium, or translates the messages of another medium into
   news articles, or transforms articles into proto-articles for
   injection into a separate Netnews network.  Encapsulation of a news
|  article into a message of MIME type application/news-transmission, or
   the subsequent undoing of that encapsulation, is not gatewaying since
   it involves no transformation of the article.

(b)  Section 4 (page 29):

|  The updated MIME media type definition of message/news is:

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Russ Allbery | 28 Dec 2009 20:44

Re: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5537 (1983)


RFC Errata System <rfc-editor <at> rfc-editor.org> writes:

> Notes
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> Rationale:
>   RFC 5537 does not follow the IETF standard terminology reinforced
>   by RFC 4288 and does not properly use the media type registration
>   template from Section 10 of RFC 4288.
>   RFC 4288 clarifies that IETF media types (and subtypes) have
>   outgrown the Internet Email MIME environment and now are used
>   in non-email environments as well; for instance in the context
>   of Netnews (this RFC!).  Therefore, all mention of "MIME" in the
>   context of Internet media types must be avoided.  See Sections 1
>   through 3 of RFC 4288 for more rationale and Section 10 there for
>   the registration template to be used since RFC 4288, in 2005.

I missed this change when updating the document from RFC 2048 to RFC 4288.
It is correct.  Thank you!

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Russ Allbery (rra <at> stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>