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Cancel-Locks in Usenet articles.
draft-ietf-usefor-cancel-lock-01

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (usefor WG)
Expired & archived
Author Simon Lyall
Last updated 1998-11-03
Replaced by draft-baeuerle-netnews-cancel-lock
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Intended RFC status (None)
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Additional resources Mailing list discussion
Stream WG state WG Document
Document shepherd (None)
IESG IESG state Replaced by draft-baeuerle-netnews-cancel-lock
Consensus boilerplate Unknown
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This Internet-Draft is no longer active. A copy of the expired Internet-Draft is available in these formats:

Abstract

This document outlines a method that may be used by authors of successor (or canceling) articles to authenticate their authorship of the original article. As a proto-article article passes through various agents they may include the hash of a secret string in a Cancel-Key header. Later if they wish to use a standard mechanism to remove the original article (eg Cancel or Supersede) they can include this string in the Cancel-Lock header to verify that they are entitled to perform this operation. Familiarity with the current News Article Format draft [ARTICLE] is assumed.

Authors

Simon Lyall

(Note: The e-mail addresses provided for the authors of this Internet-Draft may no longer be valid.)