Re: [http-auth] Ben Campbell's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpauth-scram-auth-15: (with COMMENT)

"Ben Campbell" <ben@nostrum.com> Thu, 17 December 2015 00:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-auth] Ben Campbell's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpauth-scram-auth-15: (with COMMENT)
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On 16 Dec 2015, at 17:57, Stephen Farrell wrote:

> On 16/12/15 23:52, Ben Campbell wrote:
>> Ben Campbell has entered the following ballot position for
>> draft-ietf-httpauth-scram-auth-15: No Objection
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>> Can you say something about why this is experimental? That is, what is
>> the nature of the experiment? Will results be reported? Is there a need
>> for deployment experience? Do you expect this to progress to standards
>> track at some point in the future?
>
> See the charter of the http-auth wg. [1] All of the RFCs
> from this WG are experimental for the same reason, which
> is basically that browsers today don't want new HTTP
> authentication schemes (they probably don't want the old
> ones too;-)

Ah, got it. That's good enough for me.

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> S.
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> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpauth/charters
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