Re: draft-hoffman-news-nntp-uri-01.txt

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:55:46 -0700, Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>  
wrote:

> At 12:30 PM +0100 9/23/04, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> So what do we want to do here?
>
> It sounds like you're happy pointing to 2369bis for <server>, yes? That  
> would be fine with me. We could even say "but you SHOULD implement the  
> username-password stuff because it is common today".

Well presumably 2369bis provides the default for _any_ syntax not defined  
more specifically by some scheme. So yes, and maybe even with the sentence  
you suggest.

But I am still curious as to how SASL suthentication is intended to be  
managed in this and other schemes, and whether we need anything like Al's  
'snews' scheme.

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