gonews/doc/implementation.md

NNTP implementation status

This document tracks implementation status for NTTP protocol and extensions. See:

• RFC3977 - Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
• RFC4643 - Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). Extension for Authentication
• RFC6048 - Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Additions to LIST Command

After all checkmarks will be checked - implementation can be considered complete.

This document will be updated with new RFCs data in process of development.

RFC3977:

• Connection handling (section 5):
  • Concurrent connection handling
  • CAPABILITIES command (section 5.2)
  • MODE command (section 5.3)
  • QUIT command (section 5.4)
• Article retrieval and posting, working with groups (section 6):
  • Group selection and information retrieval (section 6.1.1)
  • Group selection and information retrieval with articles numbers (section 6.1.2)
  • LAST command (section 6.1.3)
  • NEXT command (section 6.1.4
  • ARTICLE command (section 6.2.1)
  • HEAD command (section 6.2.2)
  • BODY command (section 6.2.3)
  • STAT command (section 6.2.4)
  • POST command (section 6.3.1)
  • IHAVE command (section 6.3.2)
• Informational (section 7):
  • DATE command (section 7.1)
  • HELP command (section 7.2)
  • NEWGROUPS command (section 7.3)
  • NEWNEWS command (section 7.4)
  • LIST commands (section 7.6)