Re: draft-ietf-kitten-sasl-ht-01 uploaded

Greetings.

I would advise to substitute the word "kitten" with a descriptive word;
or, otherwise, remove it.

I think that these words do not contribute to further the engagement
with XMPP and related technologies; especially amongst academics and
adults from Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America.

Kind regards,
Schimon

On Tue, 12 May 2026 13:28:55 +0200
Florian Schmaus <[email protected]> wrote:

> [cc to [email protected] since it is of interest to the xmpp
> ecosystem]
> 
> I've uploaded draft-ietf-kitten-sasl-ht-01. The major changes since
> the adoption by the Kitten WG are
> 
> - the introduction of a response status byte to indicate success or
>    failure responses
> - the capability to transmit authenticated key/value pairs in the
>    exchanged messages (e.g., for XEP-0474 [1])
> 
> 
> SASL-HT is already deployed using an older and incompatible version
> of the I-D in some parts of the XMPP ecosystem. Therefore, we
> probably need to adjust the SASL Mechanism Name to avoid
> interoperability issues. For example, from
> 
> HT-SHA-512-ENDP
> 
> to
> 
> HT2-SHA-512-ENDP
> 
> Please forgive my lack of creativity regarding the new name.
> Suggestions on a more creative naming schema that is in-line with the
> constraints of SASL Mechanism names are appreciated.
> 
> And, of course, feedback in general is welcomed.
> 
> - Florian
> 
> 
> 1: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0474.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
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