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Re: Authentication over HTTP

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Wed, 17 July 2013 17:59 UTC

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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Nicolas Mailhot
<nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net> wrote:
>>> What am I missing?
>
> That we have standards to permit interoperability, and go away and do it
> elsewhere is the perfect interop killer?

You can standardize how to do it elsewhere.  Just because X is a
standard doesn't mean that some feature that X doesn't have belongs in
X.

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