The IESG has received a request from the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Authentication WG (httpauth) to consider the following document: - 'HTTP Authentication Extensions for Interactive Clients' <draft-ietf-httpauth-extension-07.txt> as Experimental RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2016-08-26. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document specifies extensions for the HTTP authentication framework for interactive clients. Currently, fundamental features of HTTP-level authentication are insufficient for complex requirements of various Web-based applications. This forces these applications to implement their own authentication frameworks by means like HTML forms, which becomes one of the hurdles against introducing secure authentication mechanisms handled jointly by servers and user-agent. The extended framework fills gaps between Web application requirements and HTTP authentication provisions to solve the above problems, while maintaining compatibility with existing Web and non-Web uses of HTTP authentications. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpauth-extension/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpauth-extension/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
