{"draft":"draft-siemborski-rfc2554bis-09","doc_id":"RFC4954","title":"SMTP Service Extension for Authentication","authors":["R. Siemborski, Ed.","A. Melnikov, Ed."],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"20","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"IETF - NON WORKING GROUP","abstract":"This document defines a Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)\r\nextension whereby an SMTP client may indicate an authentication\r\nmechanism to the server, perform an authentication protocol exchange,\r\nand optionally negotiate a security layer for subsequent protocol\r\ninteractions during this session.  This extension includes a profile\r\nof the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) for SMTP.\r\n\r\nThis document obsoletes RFC 2554.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"July 2007","keywords":["[--------|p]","simple mail transport protocol","security layer","sasl"],"obsoletes":["RFC2554"],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":["RFC3463"],"updated_by":["RFC5248"],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC4954","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc4954"}