I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-usefor-cancel-lock-01.txt

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	Title		: Cancel-Locks in Usenet articles.
	Author(s)	: S. Lyall
	Filename	: draft-ietf-usefor-cancel-lock-01.txt
	Pages		: 4
	Date		: 03-Nov-98
	
This document outlines a method that may be used by authors of successor
(or canceling) articles to authenticate their authorship of the original
article.
 
As a proto-article article passes through various agents they may include
the hash of a secret string in a Cancel-Key header. Later if they wish to
use a standard mechanism to remove the original article (eg Cancel or
Supersede) they can include this string in the Cancel-Lock header to
verify that they are entitled to perform this operation.
 
Familiarity with the current News Article Format draft [ARTICLE] is
assumed.

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