[ietf-nntp] AUTHINFO draft 01

[Russ Allbery]

Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:
> Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

>> 5: I don't believe that it's appropriate to say that an identity looks
>> like an email address, particularly since the concept isn't used
>> anywhere in this document. At most you need just the last paragraph, but
>> the rest better belongs in [USEFOR].

> Agreed.  I wouldn't try to be at all precise about what authentication
> identities look like; it's going to depend on the server and on the
> desires of the local administrator.

It occurs to me that I'm probably dithering on this.  Jeff, do you
remember the history here and why it was included in the first place?
(I'm not sure that it's actually going to hurt anything, although Clive
has a valid point that NNTP does not elsewhere use the concept of an
e-mail address.)

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>