ietf-nntp Merge Newman's Authinfo draft into Main Draft?

Harald Alvestrand Harald.Alvestrand at maxware.no
Tue Jun 2 13:30:25 PDT 1998


At 08:58 27.05.98 -0400, Chris Lewis wrote:
>Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> Why not add
>> 
>> (C) Just DO it. I doubt IESG will object. Ask them if you must.

Don't bother. I'm still on the IESG. And I'd object.

(Recap: I think having AUTHINFO as a separate extension, and NOT in
the main document, is the Right Thing, and that blessing an existing,
inconsistently implemented plaintext password mechanism is the Wrong Thing)

                          Harald A

Harald Tveit Alvestrand
IETF Area Director, Operations and Management
NOTE: No longer Area Director for Applications.




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