ietf-nntp AUTHINFO

[Charles Lindsey]

In <20011229160157.K93705 at demon.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> writes:


>Andrew Gierth said:

>> If so, then
>> an authinfo draft can be produced, provided it doesn't attempt to
>> mandate features which are impossible for some sites to implement like
>> the last one did.

>So long as it's a separate document.

We could actually include the password variants of AUTHINFO as an
extension in the present document, since they are widely used, and have a
tolerably well agreed syntax.

The SASL stuff might have to wait, but at least we should be deputing
somebody to be working on that NOW. Is anybody doing that currently?

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