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Re: ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37th IETF

Nat Ballou <NatBa@microsoft.com> Mon, 16 December 1996 18:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37th IETF
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:36:31 -0800
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> From: Stan Barber <sob@owlman.academ.com>
> To: ietf-nntp@academ.com
> Subject: ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37th IETF
> Date: Saturday, December 14, 1996 1:53 PM
> 
> [...]
>
> It was decided to remove AUTHINFO GENERIC and replace it with AUTHINFO 
> USER/PASS.

I thought we agreed that AUTHINFO USER/PASS would replace AUTHINFO SIMPLE
in the current draft.  AUTHINFO GENERIC would remain for additional
authentication methods.

> However, this was also a suggetion to combined the two and 
> that AUTHINFO USER/PASS would imply AUTHINFO GENERIC SIMPLE. We decided
to 
> discuss this further on the mailing list.

The proposal was to also allow clear text authentication with both
AUTHINFO USER/PASS and AUTHINFO GENERIC SIMPLE.  My only comments on this
is that clients will have to be smart enough to use AUTHINFO USER/PASS 
when a server does not support AUTHINFO GENERIC SIMPLE for legacy reasons.

Nat Ballou
Microsoft

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