Re: WG Review: Recharter of Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis (httpbis)

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On Feb 23, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Roy T. Fielding <fielding@xxxxxxxx> 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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