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Re: [saag] Reminder: Call for Proposals - HTTP/2.0 and HTTP Authentication

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Tue, 15 May 2012 16:16 UTC

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On May 15, 2012, at 8:54 AM, Nico Williams wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:
>> Given the number of HTTP authentication proposals we have seen in the past 10 years, it's weird that *no one* has sent any of them to the HTTPbis WG. This is an opportunity to get the improvements we have wanted.
> 
> I'm working on an I-D that's not so much a proposal as a set of
> classification / analysis criteria and a list of imagined proposals.
> I've made a proposal in the past (REST-GSS) which I'll also update.  I
> may be a little late with the actual proposal.


I'm pretty sure that a pointer to draft-williams-rest-gss-00 (or any other expired draft in this area) is all the httpbis WG needs; they don't need an up-to-date draft.

Having said that, I bet that they would very much like to see a classification / analysis document to help them!

--Paul Hoffman

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