The IESG has received a request from the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Authentication WG (httpauth) to consider the following document: - 'The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme' <draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-05.txt> as Proposed Standard
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the [email protected] mailing lists by 2015-02-19. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to [email protected] instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document defines the "Basic" Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Authentication Scheme, which transmits credentials as userid/password pairs, obfuscated by the use of Base64 encoding. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
