{"draft":"draft-ietf-kitten-extended-mech-inquiry-06","doc_id":"RFC5587","title":"Extended Generic Security Service Mechanism Inquiry APIs","authors":["N. Williams"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"16","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Kitten (GSS-API Next Generation)","abstract":"This document introduces new application programming interfaces\r\n(APIs) to the Generic Security Services API (GSS-API) for extended\r\nmechanism attribute inquiry.  These interfaces are primarily intended\r\nto reduce instances of hardcoding of mechanism identifiers in GSS\r\napplications.\r\n\r\nThese interfaces include mechanism attributes and attribute sets, a\r\nfunction for inquiring the attributes of a mechanism, a function for\r\nindicating mechanisms that possess given attributes, and a function\r\nfor 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}