TCP Client Identity Protocol (ident)

Charter 
 
Chair(s):
     Mike St. Johns  <stjohns@umd5.umd.edu>
 
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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.
 


Goals and Milestones: 
 
  Ongoing Review implementations, and resolve outstanding issues in preparation
          for Draft Standard.                                                  

   Apr 92 Post an Internet Draft of the revised RFC 931 Identity Server 
          Protocol.                                                            

   Jun 92 Submit the Identity Server Protocol to the IESG for consideration as 
          a Proposed Standard.