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Re: [apps-discuss] I-D Action: draft-nottingham-http-new-status-02.txt

From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:12:13 -0600
Cc: Apps Discuss <apps-discuss@ietf.org>, Jan Algermissen <algermissen1971@me.com>, httpbis Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <C28A7D4D-607A-4969-9B6A-4CFCDDE0E845@mnot.net>
To: Randall Gellens <rg+ietf@qualcomm.com>
Seems sensible; I'll try to come up with something.

Cheers,


On 13/11/2011, at 8:33 PM, Randall Gellens wrote:

> In today's APPAREA/APPSWG session, Mark briefly talked about this 
> draft, and when mentioning the 511 code, said that his intent was not 
> to encourage captive portal interception as a technique for network 
> access authorization or authentication, but rather to reduce the harm 
> that such mechanisms cause.
> 
> I agree with all these goals, but in looking at 
> draft-nottingham-http-new-status-03.txt, I wonder if it would be 
> helpful to add some text in section 6 that mentions some of the ill 
> effects of the method, and mentions or points to a few better 
> alternative mechanisms for authorizing network access.
> 
> -- 
> Randall Gellens
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