ietf-nntp Re: nntp-extensions draft-ballou-nntpsrch-00.txt

[Evan Champion]

On 19 Dec 1996, Chris Lewis wrote:

> 	1) people adjusting headers etc - how do you identify which profile
> 	   belongs to whom?  (short of full authentication)

Well, what's wrong with full authentication?  Most open services only 
allow read access (think of the web, or anonymous FTP, etc.)  It would be 
nice if a future RFC would recommend authenticated posting if nothing 
else, and that would be your way out for for stateful servers.

It would also be nice if a future INN shipped with a Kerberos AUTHINFO
authenticator.  A lot of services are moving towards Kerberos
authenticators and I'm hoping 1Q97 to get all user services Kerberos
authenticated (my radius, pop/imap, ftp and http servers can all
authenticate against a Kerberos server, so news is pretty much the only
major service that can't/doesn't out of the box.)

Evan
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