Re: #308: need to reserve "negotiate" as auth scheme name

On 28/07/2011, at 7:34 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've got a TODO to mark the authentication scheme name "negotiate" as reserved (in draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations); see <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/308>.
> 
> Thoughts:
> 
> - the registry doesn't have a "status" entry; should we add that (with what values)?

There's other discussion afoot about Web-related registries, if we wait a bit this should become apparent.

> - if we keep the registry simple, what's the reference we would put in? A pointer to a new appendix in draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations, noting that "negotiate" is reserved as a scheme name, but it's not a valid scheme as per our requirements?

RFC4559 isn't adequate?


> - that being said, should there be an erratum on RFC 4559 pointing out the problems?


Yes.


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