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

I'm changing this ticket to editorial.


On 28/07/2011, at 8:16 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

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> On 28/07/2011, at 7:34 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> 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>.
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>> Thoughts:
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>> - the registry doesn't have a "status" entry; should we add that (with what values)?
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> There's other discussion afoot about Web-related registries, if we wait a bit this should become apparent.
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>> - 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?
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> RFC4559 isn't adequate?
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>> - that being said, should there be an erratum on RFC 4559 pointing out the problems?
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> Yes.
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