Re: [http-auth] Barry Leiba's Yes on draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-06: (with COMMENT)

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 17 February 2015 15:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-auth] Barry Leiba's Yes on draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-06: (with COMMENT)
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On 2015-02-17 15:47, Barry Leiba wrote:
> ...
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> COMMENT:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> -- Section 1.1.1 --
>
>     This specification uses the Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF)
>     notation of [RFC5234].
>
> Where?
> You do use 5234 as a reference to define CTL characters, so you need the
> reference.  But that sentence can go.

Good catch.

> -- Section 5 --
>
>     The entry for the "Basic" Authentication Scheme shall be updated with
>     a pointer to this specification.
>
> IANA might think this means that they should add this spec to the
> existing reference.  It'd be clearer to say it this way, and less likely
> to result in an error by IANA:
>
> NEW
>     The entry for the "Basic" Authentication Scheme shall be updated by
>     replacing the reference with a pointer to this specification.
> END

Another good catch; IANA already asked the same question :-)

Thanks for the feedback!

-> <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpauth/trac/changeset/119>

Best regards, Julian