[ietf-nntp] Need to start (and finish!) the SASL draft

[Charles Lindsey]

In <87d662lcyg.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>One of the other things I was wondering about there is if we need to
>include STARTTLS as well.  We do if we want to document any sort of
>plain-text authentication, I think, so if we want to include the legacy
>AUTHINFO USER/PASS commands, we're going to need the TLS stuff in there.

Alternatively, we could just document the AUTHINFO USER/PASS as they are
currently (widely) used, and say they are
deprecated/historic/whatever-the-proper-phrase-is.

But first, I think we really need to see a SASL draft. Does it exist
already somewhere, or are we waiting for sombody to publish it? When we
see it, we shqll be in a better position to decide what to do with it.

-- 
Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------
Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133   Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl
Email: chl at clerew.man.ac.uk      Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K.
PGP: 2C15F1A9      Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5