RFC 5587 on Extended Generic Security Service Mechanism Inquiry APIs

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        RFC 5587

        Title:      Extended Generic Security Service Mechanism 
                    Inquiry APIs 
        Author:     N. Williams
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       July 2009
        Mailbox:    Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
        Pages:      16
        Characters: 32002
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-kitten-extended-mech-inquiry-06.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5587.txt

This document introduces new application programming interfaces
(APIs) to the Generic Security Services API (GSS-API) for extended
mechanism attribute inquiry.  These interfaces are primarily intended
to reduce instances of hardcoding of mechanism identifiers in GSS
applications.

These interfaces include mechanism attributes and attribute sets, a
function for inquiring the attributes of a mechanism, a function for
indicating mechanisms that possess given attributes, and a function
for displaying mechanism attributes.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the Kitten (GSS-API Next Generation) Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
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