{
  "draft": "draft-ietf-kitten-extended-mech-inquiry-06",
  "doc_id": "RFC5587",
  "title": "Extended Generic Security Service Mechanism Inquiry APIs",
  "authors": [
    "N. Williams"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "16",
  "pub_status": "PROPOSED STANDARD",
  "status": "PROPOSED STANDARD",
  "source": "Common Authentication Technology Next Generation",
  "abstract": "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.\n\n 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]",
  "pub_date": "July 2009",
  "keywords": [
    "GSS-API",
    "mechanism",
    "inquiry",
    "extension"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC5587",
  "errata_url": null
}