[ietf-nntp] Re: SASL capability

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Ken Murchison said:
> Right now "people"is the three of us.  ;)

Indeed.

>> 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.

For the record, my semi-strong opinion is purely about having one SASL
"word" rather than several. I don't care about the delimiters between the
words; if it's more convenient to have:

 AUTHINFO USER SASL:DIGEST-MD5;EXTERNAL
 AUTHINFO USER SASL=DIGEST-MD5,EXTERNAL
 AUTHINFO USER SASL=DIGEST-MD5+EXTERNAL

or whatever to take advantage of existing parsing code, that's fine with me.

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