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Re: Expertise and Innovation - was Re: Non-Borgserve

• To: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Subject: Re: Expertise and Innovation - was Re: Non-Borgservers can authenticate Borg clients (Was Re: Re: Cookies atXML Europe 2004 -- Call for Participation)
• From: Jim Ancona <jim@a...>
• Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:05:25 -0500
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Rich Salz wrote:

>>It's tough when Elliotte's that completely right, but it happens pretty
>>regularly.  Usually when I'm on the other side, unfortunately.
> 
> Hey, let's not get carried away.
> 
> Just because digest-auth is more interoperable than we all expected,
> doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.  I still strongly stand by my
> arguments against it and in favor of those old-fogey security mechanisms.

 From my POV as a long-time reader and very occasional poster, the 
exchange between Rich and ERH is an example of why I read xml-dev. I got 
to read a debate about an important architectural issue between two 
people who have obviously thought a lot about it, and in the process I 
learned some things.

-- 
Jim Ancona
jim@a...

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