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Re: Ambiguities in section 3.1 of the keyboard-interactive draft



On 29 Sep, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> As I see it, the intent is that the client provide a hint to the server as to
> which method(s) it'd prefer to use.  In this case the server behaviour (the
> second two paragraphs above) should be specified as:
> 
>   The names of the submethods are client- and server-dependant.  If the server
>   encounters an unrecognised submethod, it MUST ignore that submethod.
>   Otherwise, it MUST process the submethods in the order specified by the
>   client.  In other words if the client specifies submethods
>   "method1,unknown,method2" the server should first try method1, skip the
>   unknown method, and then try method2.

I have no problem with this.

	/MaF
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