TCP Client Identity Protocol (ident) 




Charter



Status: Concluded March, 1993 







Chair(s):







 Mike St. Johns 







Description of Working Group:



The TCP Client Identity Protocol Working Group is chartered to define



a protocol for returning the identity of the user initiating a TCP



connection.  When a client on host A initiates a TCP connection to



host B, host B may query a server on host A to determine the identity



of the client on host A.  The primary purpose of this protocol is to



record the identity of requesters initiating a connection.



 



This work is a clarification and standardization of the Experimental



Protocol currently published as RFC 931.

Request for Comments:

  • RFC1413 Identification Protocol (Proposed Standard)
  • RFC1414 Ident MIB (Proposed Standard)