[NNTP] AUTHINFO diffs

[Ned Freed]

> Ned Freed wrote:
> >
> > Well, there's already a draft (draft-ietf-sasl-rfc2831bis-05.txt, right?), so
> > don't have to wait to cite it. Unless the IESG has created even more procedural
> > folderol I'm unaware of, there should be no problem last-calling a document
> > with a normative reference to such a draft. Actual publication as an RFC would
> > have to wait for that reference to resolve, but having a draft that's in the
> > RFC Editor queue is where this WG's responsibility ends. If it makes sense for
> > a document to sit in that state for a while, so be it.

> Ned, thanks for the input.

> This sounds like the most logical patch to take.  Unless I get off my
> ass and rewrite a PASSDSS-type SASL mechanism that we can try to fasttrack.

> Just out of curiosity, what happens to the NNTP base doc, which has an
> informative reference to AUTHINFO, if AUTHINFO is sitting in the queue
> waiting for DIGEST-MD5 to resolve?

Informative references don't need to resolve prior to publication. Normative
ones do. IMO this is the really important difference between the two, and the
one that needs to be taken into account when boundary cases arise.

				Ned