Re: [secdir] proxies and forwarding of credentials, was: SECDIR review of draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-24

[Stephen Kent <[e-mail]>]

Mark,

> It entirely depends upon the way that they’re cooperating… sometimes you’d want to forward them, sometimes not. If we were defining a proxy authentication cooperation protocol here, I could understand a MUST here, but as we’re not, I don’t think we want to constrain how one might operate…
>
OK. Just make sure the text doesn't appear to give contradictory 
messages wrt this topic.
The description of what a proxy relay does, or does not, do needs to be 
a bit clearer, so
that the MAY seems appropriate.
Steve