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Re: Working Group Last Call: draft-ietf-httpbis-auth-info

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Wed, 11 February 2015 00:38 UTC

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From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
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* Mark Nottingham wrote:
>Julian believes (with his editor hat on) that this is ready. As 
>discussed, this is a simple document to pull the Authentication-Info and 
>Proxy-Authentication-Info header fields out of 2617, so that they’re not 
>associated with a particular authentication scheme (thereby avoiding 
>lots of scheme-specific headers).
>
>Therefore, this is the announcement of WGLC for: 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-auth-info-02
>
>Please review the document carefully, and comment on this list.

This revision does not address my previous comments. It basically just
contains the idea that the `Authentication-Info` header could possibly
be used for other purposes than what it has already been defined for.
Without further information it is an entirely redundant level of indi-
rection for hypothetical future specifications and should not be pub-
lished.
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