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Re: [http-auth] Barry Leiba's Discuss on draft-ietf-httpauth-hoba-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 06 January 2015 06:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-auth] Barry Leiba's Discuss on draft-ietf-httpauth-hoba-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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On 2015-01-06 04:01, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> ...
>> And should be in here, as well, to make it clear how the details of
>> HOBA fit into the framework.
>
> Fully disagree. And the author of 7235 who did review this did not
> suggest that iirc. This should and does correctly require that the
> implementer has read or is otherwise familiar with 7235. (What you
> want would also call for every http-auth WG output to include that
> kind of regurgitation. It's just a bad idea.)
> ...

As I'm mentioned...

FWIW I found the document really confusing as well; a complete example 
exchange of the bits on the wire would be extremely helpful.

Best regards, Julian

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