RFC initiated for Single Sign-On Profile: Authentication Mechanisms

[Matthew Graham]

Hi,

The Grid and Web Services Working Group is pleased to announce that the 
Single Sign-On Profile: Authentication Mechanisms document is now an 
IVOA Proposed Recommendation and that a Request For Comments (RFC) 
period has been initiated today (July 17), with the goal of advancing 
the document to an IVOA Recommendation. As we are now in vacation 
season, the RFC period will run until August 31.

The document describes the authentication mechanisms that we approve for 
use in a single sign-on architecture and provides normative rules for 
their implementation.

Please review the document, and add any comments to the RFC page at

http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/SsoRFC

More extensive discussions should be directed to the GWS working group 
mailing list (grid at ivoa.net). The most recent version of the document 
can be found at

http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/SSOAuthMech.html

Please submit any comments by 31 August 2007. Thanks in advance for your 
contributions.

    Matthew