Changeset 1562 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p7-auth.xml

Timestamp:

Mar 4, 2012, 12:08:07 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

Recommend to consider treatment of extension parameters in new scheme definitions (see #334)

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p7-auth.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p7-auth.xml

@@ -536 +536 @@
     <x:lt>
     <t>
+      Definitions of new schemes ought to define the treatment of unknown
+      extension parameters. In general, a "must-ignore" rule is preferable
+      over "must-understand", because otherwise it will be hard to introduce
+      new parameters in the presence of legacy recipients. Furthermore,
+      it's good to describe the policy for defining new parameters (such
+      as "update the specification", or "use this registry"). 
+    </t>
+    </x:lt>
+    <x:lt>
+    <t>
       Authentication schemes need to document whether they are usable in
       origin-server authentication (i.e., using WWW-Authenticate), and/or
@@ -1492 +1502 @@
   <list style="symbols"> 
     <t>
+      <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/334"/>:
+      "recipient behavior for new auth parameters"
+    </t>
+    <t>
       <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/342"/>:
       "WWW-Authenticate ABNF slightly ambiguous"