ietf-nntp RFC977bis w.r.t. authentication

[Charles Lindsey]

In <2FBF98FC7852CF11912A000000000001095E1686 at DINO> "Larry Osterman (Exchange)" <larryo at Exchange.Microsoft.com> writes:

>If the authentication protocol runs over the NNTP connection, then it's
>encoding MUST be specified as a part of the NNTP protocol.  The encoding of
>ALL data transmitted on the NNTP port must be specified.  Otherwise we get a
>non-interoperable mess.

Surely the 8-bit cleanliness of NNTP, or its treatment of NUL and isolated
CR and LF, are irrelevant. Once SASL takes over, it is just exchanging IP
packets, and they are all binary-clean by definition.

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