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Re: draft-ietf-ldapext-authmeth-02.txt



Doc changes for draft-ietf-ldapext-authmeth-02.txt from -01 version...

- updated section:	3.  Introduction
    with revised threats and security mechanisms enumerations. 

- updated section:	4.  Deployment scenarios
    with revised scenarios.

- added section:	5.  Authentication and Authorization:  
			    Definitions and Concepts
    from draft-ietf-ldapext-ldapv3-tls-01.txt

- updated section:	6.  Required Security Mechanisms
  - draws distinctions between passive eavesdropping attacks and active 
    intermediary attacks. 
  - revised security conformance requirements.

- various detailed refinements to sections:	
	7. Anonymous authentication
	8. Password-based authentication
	9. Certificate-based authentication

- added section:	11. Authorization Identity
  - syntax for authorization id included with SASL "EXTERNAL"-flavored Bind

- updated section:	12. TLS Ciphersuites
  - refined and expanded ciphersuite list. Commented on threats different 
    classes of ciphersuites are susceptable to. 

- Overall subtle-but-important change to doc is to recognize..
  - authorization identities are not always represented as DNs