[ietf-nntp] Re: SASL capability

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue May 25 22:25:07 PDT 2004


Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> As I said before, I don't like it - I see no point in repeating the SASL
> time and time again. DIGEST-MD5 etc. are sub-types of SASL; the words
> should each match a type of AUTHINFO, with all the sub-types being
> attached to that word. So:

>     AUTHINFO USER SASL:DIGEST-MD5,EXTERNAL PAPER:FBI,CIA,MI5

> But at the end of the day it's not the most important topic to decide.

I don't have a strong opinion and am willing to go with whatever people
want, although I think either this one or the one with SASL prepended is
best, since this one uses colons and commas and therefore one may be able
to reuse some of the low-level parsers one already has to write in news
software.

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



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