Re: Straw-man charter for http-bis

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

At 12:09 PM -0400 6/7/07, Keith Moore wrote:
>2617 doesn't need clarification, it needs to be deprecated and replaced
>with not only different schemes but an entirely different framework.

We need to deal with the real world. In the real world, Basic and 
Digest Auth are used. In the real world, the better replacement for 
them is not deployed. It is fine for us to say "please stop doing 
that, use this instead", but it is myopic and unhelpful to deprecate 
something that is in widespread use.