[NNTP] AUTHINFO diffs
Ken Murchison
ken at oceana.com
Wed Jun 8 13:41:22 PDT 2005
Russ Allbery wrote:
> I would rather not require TLS. Adding SASL support is significantly
> easier than adding TLS support. Requiring GSSAPI feels like a non-starter
> to me as well; some Cyrus SASL builds don't even include GSSAPI with the
> default module set due to the other library dependencies.
>
> This makes me think that we should probably wait for DIGEST-MD5, as much
> as I dislike that. :/ Do we have any feel for how long that delay is
> going to be?
Not really, but I think it shouldn't drag on much past the next IETF.
I don't recall, will the base document block on AUTHINFO? If not, then
I'd say lets wait for DIGEST-MD5 and move base, TLS and STREAMING forward.
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