[rfc-dist] RFC 4422 on Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)

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        RFC 4422

        Title:      Simple Authentication and Security Layer 
                    (SASL) 
        Author:     A. Melnikov, Ed.,
                    K. Zeilenga, Ed.
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       June 2006
        Mailbox:    Alexey.Melnikov at isode.com, 
                    Kurt at OpenLDAP.org
        Pages:      33
        Characters: 73206
        Obsoletes:  RFC2222
        See-Also:   

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-sasl-rfc2222bis-15.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4422.txt

The Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is a framework for
providing authentication and data security services in
connection-oriented protocols via replaceable mechanisms.  It provides
a structured interface between protocols and mechanisms.  The
resulting framework allows new protocols to reuse existing mechanisms
and allows old protocols to make use of new mechanisms.  The framework
also provides a protocol for securing subsequent protocol exchanges
within a data security layer.

This document describes how a SASL mechanism is structured, describes
how protocols include support for SASL, and defines the protocol for
carrying a data security layer over a connection.  In addition, this
document defines one SASL mechanism, the EXTERNAL mechanism.

This document obsoletes RFC 2222.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the Simple Authentication and Security Layer
Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
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Joyce K. Reynolds and Sandy Ginoza
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