ietf-nntp AUTHINFO

[Stan O. Barber]

Charles Lindsey wrote:
> 
> 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?

We are not going to submit a AUTHINFO style extension that has only clear-text.
It will not be accepted by IESG without some reasonable strength in the
authorization mechanism.

The AUTHINFO extension is being worked by Chris Newman at Sun. He has assured me
he would have something by the next IETF.

I would encourage those of you who want to discuss that in more detail to use
the nntp-extensions at academ.com list since that's what it there to do.