ietf-nntp RFC977bis w.r.t. authentication

Larry Osterman (Exchange) larryo at Exchange.Microsoft.com
Tue May 5 14:54:08 PDT 1998


> The only addition that I would suggest is the ability of enumerating the
> SASL providers.  The Microsoft Exchange and MCIS servers (and the Outlook
> Express and Outlook clients) do this by returning a list of SASL providers
> supported in the response to AUTHINFO GENERIC if there are no parameters
> specified.

I thought we had already agreed on "AUTHINFO GENERIC" with no parameters
returns the list.  Ages ago.  We merely have to document what the existing
implementations do.

************LARRYO
I also recall that that's what we decided to do, but I didn't see text in
the document to that end.



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