1 Isoternet Draft Mu Protocol September 10, 2000
7 <draft-ukai-mu-protocol-02.txt>
8 Expires six months from: September 10, 2000
11 draft-ukai-mu-protocol-02.txt
17 This document is an Isoternet-Draft.
21 Copyright (C) 2000 Fumitoshi UKAI. All Rights Reserved.
25 This draft serve as a formal definition of the Mu Protocol.
26 The Mu Protocol has been used as a method for notifying
27 URL to other members in some IRC channel, where "fumi-kun"
30 2. Conventions used in this document
32 The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
33 "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in
34 this document are to be interpreted as described in [KEYWORDS].
38 For a long time, we have used some convention to notify some
39 interesting URL on IRC channel. We called it as "mu" protocol,
40 because we usually say "
\e$B$`
\e(B URL" or "
\e$B$`
\e(B URL <comment for this URL>"
41 in such case. It's very easy way and this information is very
42 useful for us, and we hope for everyone. Therefore, we use it
43 to collect useful URL informaton on IRC channel.
47 The following syntax specification uses the augmented Backus-Naur
48 Form (BNF) as described in [ABNF]
50 Except as noted otherwise, all alphabetic characters are case-
54 CR = %x0D ;; ASCII CR, carriage return
58 LF = %x0A ;; ASCII LF, line feed
60 SP = %x20 ;; ASCII SPACE, space
62 HTAB = %x09 ;; ASCII HTAB, horizontal tab
66 ESC = %x1B ;; ASCII ESC, escape
69 ;; escape is included for ISO-2022-JP encoding [ISO-2022-JP]
71 Mu_Line = Mu_prefix 1*WSP URL 1*WSP Mu_comment CRLF
75 URL = "http://" 1*VCHAR / "ftp://" 1*VCHAR / "news:" 1*VCHAR
81 \e$B$`
\e(B http://ukai.org/mu/draft-ukai-mu-protocol-01.txt
\e$B$`%W%m%H%3%k$N%I%i%U%H
\e(B
83 \e$B%`%`
\e(B http://ukai.org/mu/
\e$B!V$`!W%Z!<%8$G$-$?$N$+
\e(B
85 6. Security Considerations
87 This draft does not discuss security.
91 [KEYWORDS] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
92 Requirement Levels", RFC 2119, March 1997,
93 <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2119.txt>
95 [ABNF] Crocker, Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications:
96 ABNF", RFC 2234, Internet Mail Consortium, Demon Internet Ltd.,
97 November 1997, <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2234.txt>
99 [URL] T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, M. McCahill, "Uniform Resource
100 Locators (URL)", RFC2368
102 [ISO-2022-JP] J. Murai, M. Crispin, E. van der Poel, "Japanese
103 Character Encoding for Internet Messages", RFC1468, June 1993