Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Follow Up on RATIONALE comments

[Stjepan R. <st...@as...>]

Hi all,

On 6/10/07, Dean Michael Berris <mik...@gm...> wrote:
> It's a long weekend here in the Philippines, and I've been taking a
> lot of time reflecting on the C++ Networking Library's goals and
> scope. I have posted (which I've attached again here) the RATIONALE
> for developing the library.

Thanks for the RATIONALE - always good to further clarify the big
picture.  I'm not too knowledgeable about networking so I can't speak
much to the feasibility / adequacy of the scope, all I can say is that
it sounds good to me because of the following dependency chain: (which
I just looked up and if anyone wants to correct me or clarify that
would be great):

* ESMTP includes SMTP AUTH
* SMTP uses SASL
* SASL is all about authentication, and that's what I am interested in
the most :-)

I know other people expressed interest in authentication - if someone
wants to take the lead on the authentication aspects and figure out
what tasks need to be done, that would be very helpful for me.  If
someone tells me "implement this algorithm with this interface" I can
do that, otherwise I might be more like a fish on dry land with this
project :-)  I just haven't seen / used / made much networking code to
know where to start myself.

Thanks,

Stjepan