Re: Working Group Last Call: draft-ietf-httpbis-auth-info

* Mark Nottingham wrote:
>Julian believes (with his editor hat on) that this is ready. As 
>discussed, this is a simple document to pull the Authentication-Info and 
>Proxy-Authentication-Info header fields out of 2617, so that they’re not 
>associated with a particular authentication scheme (thereby avoiding 
>lots of scheme-specific headers).
>
>Therefore, this is the announcement of WGLC for: 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-auth-info-02
>
>Please review the document carefully, and comment on this list.

This revision does not address my previous comments. It basically just
contains the idea that the `Authentication-Info` header could possibly
be used for other purposes than what it has already been defined for.
Without further information it is an entirely redundant level of indi-
rection for hypothetical future specifications and should not be pub-
lished.
-- 
Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de
D-10243 Berlin · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de
 Available for hire in Berlin (early 2015)  · http://www.websitedev.de/ 

Received on Wednesday, 11 February 2015 00:36:56 UTC