Re: FTP AUTH GSSAPI - Is Kitten the appropriate forum?

On Monday, July 19, 2004 16:27:32 -0500 Nicolas Williams 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 05:23:04PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> >>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>     Jeffrey> Hello: I would like to ask the group whether or not you
>>     Jeffrey> believe that Kitten is an appropriate forum to discuss a
>>     Jeffrey> successor to RFC 2228 which specifies the FTP AUTH GSSAPI
>>     Jeffrey> mechanism.
>>
>> I believe that the kitten list is a great place to review this work,
>> but I believe that the work does not fall within the sort of things
>> kitten should be chartered to group.  It seems like working on GSSAPI
>> and some mechanisms is quite enough work for one WG to commit to.

I agree.  Defining GSSAPI-based authentication for particular applications 
does not seem like it should be within kitten's scope.

>> I believe that ftp work could proceed as individual drafts.

And that is the approach I was going to suggest as well.

-- Jeff
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