[NNTP] Protocol Action: 'NNTP Extension for Authentication' to Proposed Standard

[Ken Murchison]

The IESG wrote:

> The IESG has approved the following documents:
> 
> - 'Using TLS with NNTP '
>    <draft-ietf-nntpext-tls-nntp-09.txt> as a Proposed Standard
> - 'NNTP Extension for Authentication '
>    <draft-ietf-nntpext-authinfo-10.txt> as a Proposed Standard
> 
  > The TLS protocol has been implemented in the Cyrus IMAP server and 
will be
> implemented in INN.
> 
> The AUTHINFO USER/PASS authentication method specified here was
> previously defined less formally in RFC 2980 and is in widespread,
> interoperable use by existing NNTP implementations.  AUTHINFO SASL has
> been implemented for INN and the Cyrus IMAP server.

If I'm not mistaken, AUTHINFO SASL has been implemented in c-client, 
which means that Pine supports it.  I'm also assuming that it supports 
TLS, but Mark can confirm this.

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