- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:00:26 +0200
- To: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 28.09.2010 17:37, Cyrus Daboo wrote: > ... >> SASL has a different registration requirements for single names and >> family of names; when you register a family of names you essentially >> delegate a part of the space of names to another spec -- do we really >> want that? > > Take a look at > <http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-johansson-http-gss-05.txt> which > actually tried to define an HTTP auth registry. Whilst that has expired, > I think there still might be interest in pursuing it. > ... As far as I can tell, this didn't try to define a generic registry... Anyway: if there's a "family" of schemes, defined by the same specification, wouldn't it make more sense to have a single scheme name, and then dispatch depending on a scheme parameter instead? So instead of WWW-Authenticate: FOO-BAR realm="realm" one would use WWW-Authenticate: FOO realm="realm" type="BAR" ? This would simplify the registry dramatically. Best regards, Julian
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