Re: Straw-man charter for http-bis

Chris Newman wrote:

> Here's my take as AD on some of the interesting topics in this thread:
>
> 1. HTTP Digest Authentication
>
> The SASL WG appears to have decided that SASL DIGEST-MD5 is not a 
> useful authentication mechanism for a number of technical reasons.  I 
> would be uncomfortable having a WG spend a lot of time refining the 
> existing HTTP Digest mechanism based on that experience.

Indeed.
But I think it might be worth just doing a revision of HTTP Basic, in 
particular to addresas i18n. I haven't yet made up my mind on whether 
this should happen in the HTTPbis or in another HTTPauth WG.

> However, documenting the i18n behavior of deployed implementations 
> sounds like a sensible thing to do.