Re: A suggestion

Yakov Shafranovich <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:13:06 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg.rmx
Organization SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alan DeKok wrote:

> Meng Weng Wong <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>| 3. Rename the protocols as something else. My suggestion is "Lightweight 
>>| Email Authentication Protocol" which comes to a nice acronym of LEAP.
>>
>>Something which isn't already "taken" might be good.
>>Apparently leap.sourceforge.net is some sort of SQL thing.
> > 
>   EAP is the Extensible Authentication Protocol.
>   LEAP is Cisco's variant, Lightweight EAP.
> 
>   I've implemented both.  Using the same acronym for email systems
> would make my head spin.  Some variants which don't appear to be
> already taken for computer/network terms:
> 
>   Origating SMTP Authentication Protocol (OSAP)
>   Lightweight MTA Authentication Protocl (LMAP)
> 

I like the second choice.