--- /dev/null
+Isoternet Draft Mu Protocol September 10, 2000
+
+
+ Fumitoshi UKAI
+ UKAI.ORG
+Isoternet Draft
+<draft-ukai-mu-protocol-02.txt>
+Expires six months from: September 10, 2000
+
+ Mu Protocol
+ draft-ukai-mu-protocol-02.txt
+
+
+
+Status of this Memo
+
+ This document is an Isoternet-Draft.
+
+Copyright Notice
+
+ Copyright (C) 2000 Fumitoshi UKAI. All Rights Reserved.
+
+1. Abstract
+
+This draft serve as a formal definition of the Mu Protocol.
+The Mu Protocol has been used as a method for notifying
+URL to other members in some IRC channel, where "fumi-kun"
+is listening.
+
+2. Conventions used in this document
+
+The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
+"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in
+this document are to be interpreted as described in [KEYWORDS].
+
+3. Protocol Overview
+
+For a long time, we have used some convention to notify some
+interesting URL on IRC channel. We called it as "mu" protocol,
+because we usually say "\e$B$`\e(B URL" or "\e$B$`\e(B URL <comment for this URL>"
+in such case. It's very easy way and this information is very
+useful for us, and we hope for everyone. Therefore, we use it
+to collect useful URL informaton on IRC channel.
+
+4. Formal Syntax
+
+The following syntax specification uses the augmented Backus-Naur
+Form (BNF) as described in [ABNF]
+
+Except as noted otherwise, all alphabetic characters are case-
+sensitive.
+
+
+ CR = %x0D ;; ASCII CR, carriage return
+
+ CRLF = CR LF
+
+ LF = %x0A ;; ASCII LF, line feed
+
+ SP = %x20 ;; ASCII SPACE, space
+
+ HTAB = %x09 ;; ASCII HTAB, horizontal tab
+
+ WSP = SP / HTAB
+
+ ESC = %x1B ;; ASCII ESC, escape
+
+ VCHAR = %x21-7E / ESC
+ ;; escape is included for ISO-2022-JP encoding [ISO-2022-JP]
+
+ Mu_Line = Mu_prefix 1*WSP URL 1*WSP Mu_comment CRLF
+
+ Mu_prefix = 1*VCHAR
+
+ URL = "http://" 1*VCHAR / "ftp://" 1*VCHAR / "news:" 1*VCHAR
+
+ Mu_comment = 1*VCHAR
+
+5. Examples
+
+ \e$B$`\e(B http://ukai.org/mu/draft-ukai-mu-protocol-01.txt \e$B$`%W%m%H%3%k$N%I%i%U%H\e(B
+
+ \e$B%`%`\e(B http://ukai.org/mu/ \e$B!V$`!W%Z!<%8$G$-$?$N$+\e(B
+
+6. Security Considerations
+
+ This draft does not discuss security.
+
+References
+
+ [KEYWORDS] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
+ Requirement Levels", RFC 2119, March 1997,
+ <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2119.txt>
+
+ [ABNF] Crocker, Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications:
+ ABNF", RFC 2234, Internet Mail Consortium, Demon Internet Ltd.,
+ November 1997, <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2234.txt>
+
+ [URL] T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, M. McCahill, "Uniform Resource
+ Locators (URL)", RFC2368
+
+ [ISO-2022-JP] J. Murai, M. Crispin, E. van der Poel, "Japanese
+ Character Encoding for Internet Messages", RFC1468, June 1993
+
+Author's Address
+
+ Fumitoshi UKAI
+ Takaido Higashi
+ Suginami, Tokyo
+ Japan
+
+ EMail: ukai@ukai.org