[OAUTH-WG] Fwd: [kitten] [IANA #731918] SASL mechanism not listed

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Mon, 24 March 2014 19:34 UTC

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Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Fwd: [kitten] [IANA #731918] SASL mechanism not listed
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See below. I think (not quite sure) that this is better
discussed on the kitten list.

Ta,
S.


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Subject: [kitten] [IANA #731918] SASL mechanism not listed
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:33:06 +0000
From: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
To: kitten@ietf.org <kitten@ietf.org>
CC: iana-questions@iana.org <iana-questions@iana.org>


Hiya,

IANA were asked the following question a while back, but I
dropped the ball;-)

I'd appreciate your thoughts on the matter. I'm not quite
sure which registries are meant exactly though.

(I'll also forward to the oauth WG, but not cross-post)

Thanks,
S.

<start>

The following draft describes a SASL mechanism that is in use on
GMail and should not therefore be allocated to another scheme unless
we want bad things to happen.

http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-murchison-sasl-login-00.txt

The strings XOAUTH and XOAUTH2 are also being used for a preliminary
version of the OAUTH spec as well.

The reason Google is using this particular mechanism rather than
PLAIN is that it is the one that has the widest client support:

http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html

So it would be a real disaster if this particular code point was re-issued.

It would probably be a good idea if every registry had a list of 'dirty'
code points that must not be reused because there are existing applications.

<end>

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