[drinks] Barry Leiba's No Objection on draft-ietf-drinks-spp-protocol-over-soap-07: (with COMMENT)
"Barry Leiba" <barryleiba@computer.org> Wed, 18 February 2015 22:51 UTC
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Subject: [drinks] Barry Leiba's No Objection on draft-ietf-drinks-spp-protocol-over-soap-07: (with COMMENT)
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Barry Leiba has entered the following ballot position for draft-ietf-drinks-spp-protocol-over-soap-07: No Objection When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to all email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut this introductory paragraph, however.) Please refer to http://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/discuss-criteria.html for more information about IESG DISCUSS and COMMENT positions. The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-drinks-spp-protocol-over-soap/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMENT: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Section 4 -- Implementations compliant with this document MUST use HTTP 1.1 [RFC2616] or higher. Also, implementations SHOULD use persistent connections. You could remove "compliant with this document". But more importantly, the "SHOULD" is not an interoperability requirement. I'd rather see "implementations should use persistent connections for the performance reasons specified above." But this is non-blocking, and there's no need to discuss it. -- Section 5 -- I support Stephen's DISCUSS here. Further on what he says in his comment, this MUST requirement locks you into Digest for all time, regardless of what other authentication mechanisms might be defined and deployed later. That doesn't seem wise. If the real point here is that there are two mechanisms (Basic and Digest), and you want to use Digest because you don't want Basic, then maybe that's how you should say it: ban Basic rather than requiring Digest.