- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:24:07 -0800
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org, IETF-Discussion <ietf@ietf.org>, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>, The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>
On Feb 23, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Tim Bray wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote: > >> How many times do we have to do this before we declare insanity? >> I don't care how much risk it adds to the HTTP charter. They are >> all just meaningless deadlines anyway. If we want HTTP to have >> something other than Basic (1993) and Digest (1995) authentication, >> then it had better be part of *this* charter so that the proposals >> can address them. > > Well, Digest already isn't used by anyone :) A popular misconception because it works unseen. See tools.ietf.org > Seriously, someone needs to propose some charter language or this > discussion is a no-op. -Tim "Proposals for new HTTP authentication schemes are in scope." ....Roy
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