ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37th IETF

[Jack De Winter]

At 03:07 PM 12/19/96 GMT, brian at nothing.ucsd.edu wrote:
>Gentlemen,
>
>Please do not forget that AUTHINFO USER does NOT REQUIRE A PASSWORD.
>
>I originally added it to facilitate gathering of readership statistics,
>and in that application, it needed only supply the username.
>
>While AUTHINFO may be used to control access, that is not its only use.

As a side note, I submitted the AUTHSASL draft for NNTP extension
yesterday and it was published as a draft this morning.  While I
see AUTHINFO GENERIC as being good for 'historical' and current
implementations, I see John Meyer's SASL work as a good unified
security approach.

regards,
Jack
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