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Re: Straw-man charter for http-bis

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Wed, 30 May 2007 15:30 UTC

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Julian Reschke wrote:
> For instance, RFC2617 needs a revision badly as well (for instance, 
> wrt to I18N of usernames and passwords, and, as far as I can recall, 
> certain problems with the definition of Digest Auth). IMHO; this 
> should occur in a separate working group.

The HTTP auth model needs a lot of work.  Creating an update without 
addressing it seems to me pointless.

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