[NNTP] AUTHINFO diffs

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Wed Jun 8 13:42:42 PDT 2005


Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> 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.

The base document won't inherently; however, I don't really want to get
into the position that implementors add CAPABILITIES without adding
AUTHINFO.  But maybe implementors will be smart enough to figure that out.

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



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