A new IETF working group has been proposed in the Security Area. The IESG has not made any determination as yet. The following Description was submitted, and is provided for informational purposes only: Simple Authentication and Security Layer (sasl) ----------------------------------------------- Current Status: Proposed Working Group Description of Working Group: The Simple Authentication and Security Layer [RFC2222] provides key security services to a number of application protocols including BEEP, IMAP, LDAP, POP, and SMTP. The purpose of this working group is to shepherd SASL, including select SASL mechanisms, through the Internet Standards process. This group will deliver a revised SASL Technical Specification suitable for consideration as a Draft Standard. This work will be based upon RFC 2222 and draft-myers-saslrev. This group will deliver revised Technical Specifications suitable for consideration as Draft Standards for the following SASL mechanisms: ANONYMOUS, PLAIN, CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, and EXTERNAL. This work will be based upon RFC 2195, RFC 2222, RFC 2831, draft-zeilenga-sasl-anon, draft-zeilenga-sasl-plain, draft-nerenberg-sasl-crammd5 and draft-melnikov-rfc2831bis, and draft-myers-saslrev-xx.txt. This group will deliver a revised Technical Specification suitable for publication as Proposed Standard for the GSSAPI family of SASL mechanisms. This work will be based upon RFC 2222 and draft-ietf-cat-sasl-gssapi. This group will deliver a Technical Specification suitable for publication as Proposed Standard describing a family of SASL mechanisms using the Secure Remote Password [RFC2945] protocol. This work will be based upon draft-burdis-cat-srp-sasl. The following areas are not within the scope of work of this WG: - new features, - SASL Mechanisms not specifically mentioned above, and - SASL "profiles". However, the SASL WG is an acceptable forum for review of SASL-related submissions produced by others as long as such review does not impede progress on the WG objectives listed above.
