Re: WGLC #349: "strength"

... and I'm closing the WGLC ticket. Thanks.



On 05/06/2012, at 6:31 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> On 2012-06-04 07:54, David Morris wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 04/06/2012, at 10:57 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>>> 
>>>> * Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>>>> On 02/06/2012, at 8:30 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>>>>> -1; if we change the terms we should do so consistently.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I thought "details" captured a certain vagueness that would help in this particular case. YMMV.
>>>> 
>>>> I agree with Julian in that if we want to consider changing the termino-
>>>> logy, we should do that in a dedicated thread rather than arguing about
>>>> the terms in the particular example, short of a rationale why this par-
>>>> ticular instance is exceptional. I don't think, in any case, "details"
>>>> would be a good replacement.
>>> 
>>> See my subsequent message; my understanding was that this is a special
>>> case, because it's not talking about what's happening on the wire.
>> 
>> I don't see a reason to call what is on the wire anything different than
>> what is provided by the user. It is encoded according to the rules of
>> the authentication method. There is no clarity that I can divine with
>> the additional complexity.
> 
> Change applied with <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/1669>.
> 
> We can discuss terminology, but this should happen in a separate thread.
> 
> Best regards, Julian
> 

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