ietf-nntp Minutes from the WG (these have been submitted to IETF)

[Jack De Winter]

At 02:58 PM 12/19/97 EST, Chris Lewis wrote:
>I was anticipating do this via "AUTHINFO GENERIC LIST", and have LIST
>be a authentication scheme that provides the list of authentications
>available, then "nests" to a selected one.  The advantage to this is
>that NNTP doesn't need to define how this is done.  The disadvantage
>is that I may have to get around to doing some sort of AUTHINFO GENERIC
>subprotocol spec/BCP a bit sooner than I thought.
>
>Do people consider this acceptable?  As in, can we leave how to do
>"LIST" out of the spec and leave it to a later date - assuming for now
>that browser-end authenticators "know" which ones are available?  Then
>LIST can be added later without touching the NNTP spec.

I would rather have the listing ability put in up front to relate
to the current SASL and TLS framework that has already been put in
place in a number of different protocols.

regards,
Jack
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