RE: small typo in draft-leach-digest-sasl-03.txt and some questio ns

[Paul Leach <paulle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Hansen [mailto:tony@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 10:04 PM
> To: Paul Leach
> Cc: chris.newman@xxxxxxxxxxxx; 'ietf-sasl@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: Re: small typo in draft-leach-digest-sasl-03.txt and some
> questions

> I have a feeling that many implementations will get this wrong and it
> would be worth simplifying things now before we get much further. The
> simplification I have in mind is of course to "allow any name 
> value-pair
> to be quoted". It makes code, maintenance and the protocol description
> much simpler, all around.

That would make it incompatible with HTTP's Digest, which is a proposed
standard.

People who can't read BNF shouldn't implement protocols.

It also doesn't make the spec simpler -- since the value parts of AV pairs
are currenlty typed, we'd have to have one new AV pair type for each current
value type.

Paul