The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Extended Generic Security Service Mechanism Inquiry APIs ' <draft-ietf-kitten-extended-mech-inquiry-06.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Kitten (GSS-API Next Generation) Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Tim Polk and Pasi Eronen. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-kitten-extended-mech-inquiry-06.txt Technical Summary This document introduces new application programming interfaces (APIs) to the Generic Security Services API (GSS-API) for extended mechanism attribute inquiry. This document provides new functionality to obtain specific GSS-API mechanism attributes. It defines new GSS-API functions that allow retrieval and display of said attributes. These interfaces are primarily intended to reduce instances of hardcoding of mechanism identifiers in GSS applications. Working Group Summary The WG process was not controversial. Document Quality There are no implementors of these interfaces that we know of. However, there should be significant demand once these interfaces become standard, as a number of applications have hard-coded around limitations of the current GSS-API. Enabling better programming practices is desired. Personnel Shawn M. Emery <Shawn.Emery@Sun.COM> is the document shepherd for this document. Tim Polk is the responsible AD. RFC Editor Note Please make the following six changes: (1) Section 3.4.2, title: s/3.4.2. GSS_Indicate_mechs_by_attr()/3.4.2. GSS_Indicate_mechs_by_attrs()/ (2) Section 3.4.3, last sentence: s/GSS_Inquire_mech_attrs_for_mech()/GSS_Inquire_attrs_for_mech() (3) Section 3.4.6, third sentence: s/typdefs/typedefs/ (4) Section 3.4.6, Figure 2 OLD: OM_uint32 gss_inquire_mechs_for_attrs( OM_uint32 *minor_status, gss_const_OID_set desired_mech_attrs, gss_const_OID_set except_mech_attrs, gss_const_OID_set critical_mech_attrs, gss_OID_set *mechs); NEW: OM_uint32 gss_indicate_mechs_by_attrs( OM_uint32 *minor_status, gss_const_OID_set desired_mech_attrs, gss_const_OID_set except_mech_attrs, gss_const_OID_set critical_mech_attrs, gss_OID_set *mechs); (5) Section 5, first sentence: s/namsepace/namespace/ (6) Section 5, first sentence: s/IESG Protocol Action/IETF Consensus/ _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
