IP Authentication (ipauth)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 07/27/1997

 Current Status: Concluded Working Group

 Chair(s):
     Jeffrey Schiller  <jis@mit.edu>

 Security Area Director(s):
     Jeffrey Schiller  <jis@mit.edu>
     Steve Bellovin  <smb@research.att.com>

 Security Area Advisor:
     Jeffrey Schiller  <jis@mit.edu>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:awg@bitsy.mit.edu
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Description of Working Group:

To brainstorm issues related to providing for the security and
integrity of information on the Internet, with emphasis on those
protocols used to operate and control the network.  To propose open
standard solutions to problems in network authentication.

 Goals and Milestones:

   OCT 88       RFC proposing A Key Distribution System (emphasis on ``A'' 
                as opposed to ``THE''). MIT's Kerberos seems the most 
                likely candidate here. 

   OCT 88       Document to act as a protocol designers guide to 
                authentication. 

   OCT 88       RFC specifying an authentication format which supports 
                multiple authentication systems. 

   OCT 88       Document discussing the cost/benefit tradeoffs of various 
                generic approaches to solving the authentication problem in 
                the Internet context. 


 Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet-Drafts.

 Request For Comments:

  None to date.