ietf-nntp AUTHINFO

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> 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.

Only if you want this document to be rejected by the IESG.  Please see the
previous discussion of this in the archives.  No clear-text password
mechanisms in standards-track RFCs.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>