ietf-nntp RFC977bis w.r.t. authentication

[Chris Newman]

On Thu, 7 May 1998, Brian Hernacki wrote:
> Just to add my two cents, I think the right thing to do is document the
> existing AUTHINFO scheme (which I would say is AUTHINFO USER/PASS) and
> do a seperate document to define AUTHINFO GENERIC.

The IESG requires that if we include an authentication mechanism of any
sort, we include a fully-specified one that does not send an unencrypted  
plaintext password over the wire.  Thus your proposal can't be
standardized.

		- Chris