{
  "draft": "draft-dfncis-netnews-admin-sys-07",
  "doc_id": "RFC4707",
  "title": "Netnews Administration System (NAS)",
  "authors": [
    "P. Grau",
    "V. Heinau",
    "H. Schlichting",
    "R. Schuettler"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "49",
  "pub_status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "source": "INDEPENDENT",
  "abstract": "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.\n\n The database is accessible by news servers, news administrators, and 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, which provides detailed information about groups and hierarchies to the user.\n\n 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. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.",
  "pub_date": "October 2006",
  "keywords": [
    "news servers",
    "news administrator",
    "news reader"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC4707",
  "errata_url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc4707"
}