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Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Authentication Scheme Registrations
draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-04

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft that was ultimately published as RFC 7236.
Author Julian Reschke
Last updated 2012-08-16
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draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-04
HTTPbis Working Group                                         J. Reschke
Internet-Draft                                                greenbytes
Intended status: Informational                           August 16, 2012
Expires: February 17, 2013

               Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
                  Authentication Scheme Registrations
             draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-04

Abstract

   This document registers Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
   authentication schemes which have been defined in standards-track
   RFCs before the IANA HTTP Authentication Scheme Registry was
   established.

Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor)

   Discussion of this draft takes place on the HTTPBIS working group
   mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived at
   <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/>.

   The current issues list is at <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/
   trac/query?component=authscheme-registrations> and related documents
   (including fancy diffs) can be found at
   <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/>.

   The changes in this draft are summarized in Appendix B.4.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   2.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   3.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   4.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   Appendix A.  Initial Registry Contents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   Appendix B.  Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before
                publication) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
     B.1.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-00  . . . 4
     B.2.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-01  . . . 4
     B.3.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-02  . . . 4
     B.4.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-03  . . . 4

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1.  Introduction

   This document registers Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
   authentication schemes which have been defined in standards-track
   RFCs before the IANA HTTP Authentication Scheme Registry was
   established.

2.  Security Considerations

   There are no security considerations related to the registration
   itself.

3.  IANA Considerations

   Appendix A provides initial registrations of HTTP authentication
   schemes for the IANA HTTP Authentication Scheme registry at
   <http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes> (see Section 2.3
   of [draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth]).

4.  Normative References

   [RFC2617]                     Franks, J., Hallam-Baker, P.,
                                 Hostetler, J., Lawrence, S., Leach, P.,
                                 Luotonen, A., and L. Stewart, "HTTP
                                 Authentication: Basic and Digest Access
                                 Authentication", RFC 2617, June 1999.

   [RFC4559]                     Jaganathan, K., Zhu, L., and J. Brezak,
                                 "SPNEGO-based Kerberos and NTLM HTTP
                                 Authentication in Microsoft Windows",
                                 RFC 4559, June 2006.

   [draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth]  Fielding, R., Ed., Lafon, Y., Ed., and
                                 J. Reschke, Ed., "HTTP/1.1, part 7:
                                 Authentication",
                                 draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-20 (work in
                                 progress), July 2012.

Appendix A.  Initial Registry Contents

   +----------------+------------+-------------------------------------+
   | Authentication | Reference  | Notes                               |
   | Scheme Name    |            |                                     |
   +----------------+------------+-------------------------------------+
   | Basic          | [RFC2617], |                                     |
   |                | Section 2  |                                     |
   | Digest         | [RFC2617], |                                     |
   |                | Section 3  |                                     |

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   | Negotiate      | [RFC4559], | This authentication scheme violates |
   |                | Section 3  | both HTTP semantics (being          |
   |                |            | connection-oriented) and syntax     |
   |                |            | (use of syntax incompatible with    |
   |                |            | the WWW-Authenticate and            |
   |                |            | Authorization header field syntax). |
   +----------------+------------+-------------------------------------+

Appendix B.  Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)

B.1.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-00

   Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth reference.

B.2.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-01

   Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth reference.

   Closed issues:

   o  <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/308>: "need to
      reserve 'negotiate' as auth scheme name"

B.3.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-02

   Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth reference.

B.4.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-03

   Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth reference.

Author's Address

   Julian F. Reschke
   greenbytes GmbH
   Hafenweg 16
   Muenster, NW  48155
   Germany

   EMail: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de
   URI:   http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/

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