RE: Issues #5 and 15

Title: Message

Regarding number #15 - the use of a password within 
CAP.  

 

A 
password is not usually part of a messages content value.  I am also not 
sure of its value in any case. I know that our implementation puts 
password info outside CAP.  Are any of the current applications using 
it?  I would suggest polling known users in some way.  If no one is 
using the intenal password element, lets just drop it, saying that passwords are 
more properly part of the interfaces for sharing CAP than they are CAP 
itself.  If someone is actually using it, lets see how they are doing so 
before changing the spec.

 

Regarding #5 - lack of authentication 

 

Well - 
duh!  Authentication is properly decoupled from content.  It might be 
warrented to suggest an authentication standard for CAP users, but even that 
might vary from networks to network.  Authentication is a legitimate issue 
for the TC, but I would argue that it is an infrastructure issue and not a CAP 
issues at all!

 

R/S

 

Gary A. Ham 

Senior Research Scientist

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