Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Authentication Scheme Registrations
draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-02

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 should take 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 Appendix B.2.

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Table of Contents

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

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 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. References

Appendix A. Initial Registry Contents

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

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

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

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

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

Closed issues:

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

Author's Address