[lemonade] COMMENT: draft-ncook-urlauth-accessid

Lisa Dusseault <Lisa.Dusseault@messagingarchitects.com> Tue, 05 May 2009 21:37 UTC

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Comment:
The URLAUTH RFC says:
  "The URLAUTH component overrides the second purpose of the enc-user in
   the IMAP URI and by default permits the URI to be resolved by any
   user permitted by the <access> identifier."

The 'stream' value doesn't seem to fit this definition, because 'stream' doesn't identify a user or a class of users.  Since this draft is updating RFC5092, it would be appropriate (though a little obsessive) to update the definition given above with a new one.  

Since this has been discussed in LEMONADE where URLAUTH mostly originated, I'm making this a COMMENT and don't object to the approach taken.