[ietf-nntp] AUTHINFO draft 01

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Jul 5 09:27:33 PDT 2004


Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> I have a question as to why the the base64 syntax and the 504 code
> belong in [NNTP] if their only use is with AUTHINFO.  Do you anticipate
> that they will be used for other commands in the future?

I think there's about a 20-30% chance that we'll need to use base64
arguments for something else in the future.  I can't think of any
extension in particular that would need it right now.

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



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