ietf-nntp IETF 41 summary -- Comments Welcome

Stan Barber sob at academ.com
Sun May 3 22:26:25 PDT 1998


>From the summary I wrote:
> During the discussion about the "rfc977bis" draft, there was a
> lengthy discussion about excluding the AUTHINFO command from this
> document and doing it in a separate extensions document. This was
> proposed as a tactical move to help get the "rfc977bis" document
> wrapped up and publishable. There was some concern there would be
> problems with this since it would mean that the base protocol would
> not include any form of authentication/identification command.
> However, other folks noted that the original NNTP spec didn't have
> this and most folks don't depend on these features. So, AUTHINFO
> will be removed from this draft and put into an extensions document
> of its own. There was a volunteer to create this new document.
> Unfortunately, I didn't capture the name of that individual.

Would that individual identify themselves? I apologize in advance for 
not getting this down. 

[Of course, in identifying yourself, you are going to be expected to produce
the draft:0)]


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