[NNTP] draft-ietf-nntpext-authinfo-04

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Wed Sep 29 12:26:02 PDT 2004


Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> Ugh!  You're right, and I think that we *do* want to allow the
> extensions to change after auth.

Okay.  I'm ambivalent on that.  :)

> I'll go ahead and add wording similar to Clive's, but I'll note that
> continuing to advertise AUTHINFO SASL: is only required id a security
> layer is in place.  Any thoughts on whether we should continue to
> advertise AUTHINFO USER in this case?  (For the record, I don't see the
> point).

I don't really care one way or the other.  I agree that there's no real
point in doing so.

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



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