Re: A suggestion
Yakov Shafranovich <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:13:06 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.asrg.rmx |
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| 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.