Changeset 2211 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p7-auth.xml

Timestamp:

Mar 19, 2013, 8:16:02 AM (7 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

tune terminology (see #439)

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p7-auth.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

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

@@ -120 +120 @@
 <t>
    HTTP provides several &OPTIONAL; challenge-response authentication
-   mechanisms that can be used by a server to challenge a client request and
+   schemes that can be used by a server to challenge a client request and
    by a client to provide authentication information. The "basic" and "digest"
    authentication schemes continue to be specified in
@@ -158 +158 @@
   <x:anchor-alias value="credentials"/>
 <t>
-   HTTP provides a simple challenge-response authentication mechanism
+   HTTP provides a simple challenge-response authentication framework
    that can be used by a server to challenge a client request and by a
    client to provide authentication information. It uses an extensible,
@@ -261 +261 @@
 <t>
    The HTTP protocol does not restrict applications to this simple
-   challenge-response mechanism for access authentication. Additional
+   challenge-response framework for access authentication. Additional
    mechanisms &MAY; be used, such as encryption at the transport level or
    via message encapsulation, and with additional header fields
@@ -1166 +1166 @@
       "explain list expansion in ABNF appendices"
     </t>
+    <t>
+      <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/439"/>:
+      "terminology: mechanism vs framework vs scheme"
+    </t>
   </list>
 </t>