Re: new C-S draft

Alex Bochannek <abochann@cisco.com> Wed, 12 April 1995 04:25 UTC

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From: Alex Bochannek <abochann@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: new C-S draft
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Apr 95 09:39:06 EDT." <9504111339.aa10762@nic.near.net>
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> > The authentication type names specified in RFC1409 could be used here.
> 
> This doesn't seem like it's buying us anything.  I guess the basic 
> question here is do we need a "standard" list of authentication types
> specified in this document?  Not every server or client need support
> all of the types...

...but needs to at least support one type with a specified name. I'd
suggest we specify something like NULL and PASSWORD to be mandatory
and everything else implementation specific.

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