The IESG has received a request from the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Authentication WG (httpauth) to consider the following document: - 'HTTP Digest Access Authentication' <draft-ietf-httpauth-digest-15.txt> as Proposed Standard 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 2015-04-02. 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 HTTP provides a simple challenge-response authentication mechanism that may be used by a server to challenge a client request and by a client to provide authentication information. This document defines the HTTP Digest Authentication scheme that can be used with the HTTP authentication mechanism. Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor before publication) Discussion of this draft takes place on the HTTPAuth working group mailing list (http-auth@ietf.org), which is archived at [1]. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpauth-digest/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpauth-digest/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
