- From: Marc Salomon <marc@ckm.ucsf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:04:16 -0700
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Daniel DuBois: |I have only said that indications I've received imply Netscape needs to be |coaxed to support Digest, because they, as of recently, had no plans to |support it. Plans not to support it, rather. And the statement was made by the NS standards cop, not marketing exec (although I'm not sure the difference 'tween the two is measurable). If there's anything more unpleasant than advertising suspect claims of standards conformance to sell products (We Support HTML 3.0!), its holding your breath until blue in the face so that those standards to conform to planned null implementations. The technical case for (digest && basic) == MUST is overwhelming. Requiring this gaping BASIC security hole be plugged with (at least) digest does not privilege any one product over another. The political advance if digest is 'musted' is on behalf of the users and ensuring that our privacy can be enhanced across interoperable implementations. -marc --
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