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        RFC 1508:

        Title:      Generic Security Service Application Program
                    Interface       
        Author:     J. Linn
        Mailbox:    Linn@gza.com
        Pages:      49
        Characters: 111,228
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none


This Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API)
definition provides security services to callers in a generic fashion,
supportable with a range of underlying mechanisms and technologies and
hence allowing source-level portability of applications to different
environments. This specification defines GSS-API services and
primitives at a level independent of underlying mechanism and
programming language environment, and is to be complemented by other,
related specifications: documents defining specific parameter bindings
for particular language environments, and documents defining token
formats, protocols, and procedures to be implemented in order to
realize GSS-API services atop particular security mechanisms

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute