- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:12:59 -0400
- To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org>
- CC: Apps Discuss <discuss@apps.ietf.org>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 12:09 PM -0400 6/7/07, Keith Moore wrote: >> 2617 doesn't need clarification, it needs to be deprecated and replaced >> with not only different schemes but an entirely different framework. > > We need to deal with the real world. In the real world, Basic and > Digest Auth are used. In the real world, the better replacement for > them is not deployed. It is fine for us to say "please stop doing > that, use this instead", but it is myopic and unhelpful to deprecate > something that is in widespread use. basic and digest are used, but not widely. deprecate means "please stop doing that, use this instead". Keith
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