The IESG has approved the following document: - 'GSS-API Naming Extensions' (draft-ietf-kitten-gssapi-naming-exts-15.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Common Authentication Technology Next Generation Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Stephen Farrell and Sean Turner. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-kitten-gssapi-naming-exts/ Technical Summary The Generic Security Services API (GSS-API) provides a simple naming architecture that supports name-based authorization. This document introduces new APIs that extend the GSS-API naming model to support name attribute transfer between GSS-API peers. Working Group Summary Nothing worth noting regarding WG process. Document Quality This protocol has been implemented in the MIT 1.8 release. At least one other vendor has plans on implementing this in the future as well. Personnel The document shepherd is Shawn Emery The responsible AD is Stephen Farrell