The Simple Authentication and Security Layer (sasl) working group in the Security Area has concluded. The IESG contact persons are Tim Polk and Sean Turner. The sasl working group has completed its initial charter items, and is merging with the kitten working group. As future sasl work items will be processed in kitten, the sasl working group is officially closing and future discussions will occur on the kitten mailing list. The sasl working group was primarily focused on revising the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL), as defined in RFC 2222, and key SASL mechanisms for publication as a standards track RFCs. The working group published seven RFCs, including the revised SASL specification as RFC 4422, GSSAPI (RFC 4752), GS2 (RFC 5801), and Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) (RFC 5802). Sean and I thank all of the IETF participants who have contributed to the various documents produced by the sasl working group and to the successful completion of these important deliverables. We especially thank Kurt Zeilenga and Tom Yu who have chaired the working group since its formation. Tom will be continuing as kitten co-chair, so there should be continuity! sasl mailing list traffic will be redirected to the kitten wg list, and current sasl mailing list members will be added to the kitten wg list. The list archive will be retained. - Tim Polk, Security AD _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
