Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-melnikov-sasl-scram-ldap-03
Chris Lonvick <clonvick@cisco.com> Thu, 15 October 2009 21:39 UTC
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From: Chris Lonvick <clonvick@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-melnikov-sasl-scram-ldap-03
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Hi Barry, I like that better as well. Best regards, Chris On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Barry Leiba wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Chris Lonvick <clonvick@cisco.com> wrote: >> I'd also recommend that you revise the abstract a bit for clarity. >> CURRENT: >> This memo describes how authPassword LDAP attribute can be used for >> storing secrets used by Salted Challenge Response (SCRAM) Simple >> Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Mechanism. >> SUGGESTED: >> This memo describes how the LDAP attribute of authPassword can be used >> for storing secrets used by the Salted Challenge Response (SCRAM) >> mechanism in the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) >> framework. > > I agree that strings of attributive nouns and noun-phrases can be > confusing, especially when they're long and also shown as acronyms. I > think the second half of your suggested change is good. But I think > the first half actually makes it worse, by making it look like there's > some attribute of authPassword that's called "LDAP". The best way to > clarify that part is just to put the attribute name in quotes: > SUGGESTED++: > This memo describes how the "authPassword" LDAP attribute can be used > for storing secrets used by the Salted Challenge Response (SCRAM) > mechanism in the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) > framework. > > Barry >
- [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-melnikov-sasl-scr… Chris Lonvick
- Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-melnikov-sasl… Barry Leiba
- Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-melnikov-sasl… Chris Lonvick
- Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-melnikov-sasl… Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-melnikov-sasl… Alexey Melnikov