draft-ietf-nntpext-base-03.txt some comments

[Chris Newman]

On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Chris Lewis wrote:
> So, you're looking more at things like:
> 
> C: I want X
> S: you have to authenticate for that
>                             OR                        OR
> C: what do you understand   C: authenticate with b    C: authenticate with b
> S: these: a, b, c           S: begin authentication   S: dunno b
> C: authenticate with b                                C: whatcha got?
> S: begin authentication                               S: these: a, c
>                                                       C: authenticate with c
>                                                       S: begin authentication
> 
> So, "AUTHINFO GENERIC" returning a list, and "AUTHINFO GENERIC ..." commencing
> authentication seems to me to be nice and simple.

Your first example is a reasonable justification for choosing the proposed 
model (the latter two work with either model).  I'll yield this point as
SASL permits either model.

		- Chris