Name: draft-dfncis-netnews-admin-sys-06
Title: Netnews Administration System (NAS)
State: Pending
Authors: Philipp Grau, Vera Heinau, Heiko Schlichting
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2003-06-18
The Netnews Administration System (NAS) is a framework to simplify the
administration and usage of network news (also known as Netnews) on the
Internet. Data for the administration of newsgroups and hierarchies are
kept in a distributed hierarchical database and are available through a
client-server-protocol. The database is accessible by news servers and news
administrators as well as by news readers. News servers can update their
configuration automatically; administrators are able to get the data
manually. News reader programs are able to get certain information from an
NAS server, automatically or at a user's discretion, to provide detailed
information about groups and hierarchies to the user. NAS is usable in
coexistence with the current, established process of control messages; an
unwanted interference is impossible. Furthermore, NAS is able to reflect
the somewhat chaotic structure of Usenet in a hierarchical database. NAS
can be used without modification of existing news relay, news server or
news reader software, however, some tasks will be better accomplished with
NAS compliant software.
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