With the continued use of NNTP on the Internet, there
    remains an interest in creating an optimized transport
    protocol for server-to-server transfers and an optimized
    client protocol for client-to-server interactions. There
    is also considerable interest is building better mechanisms
    to provide audit information on which news groups are being
    read by which users.

    An IETF working group has been formed and it is the hope of
    this author that these issues will be addressed in that forum.