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 _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf