[ietf-nntp] Re: SASL capability
Ken Murchison
ken at oceana.com
Wed May 26 04:38:43 PDT 2004
Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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,
Right now "people"is the three of us. ;)
> 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.
Can we get some other opinions on this? The two choices on the table are:
AUTHINFO USER SASL:DIGEST-MD5,EXTERNAL
AUTHINFO USER SASL=DIGEST-MD5 SASL=EXTERNAL
In lieu of other opinions, I'm going to move forward with SASL: since
Clive has voiced the only semi-strong opinion either way.
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