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<title abbrev='GSS-API'>Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2</title>
<author initials='J.' surname='Linn' fullname='John Linn'>
<organization>OpenVision Technologies</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>One Main St.</street>
<city>Cambridge</city>
<region>MA</region>
<code>02142</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 617 374 2245</phone>
<email>John.Linn@ov.com</email></address></author>
<date month='January' year='1997' />
<abstract>
<t>The Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API), as defined in RFC-1508, 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:</t>
<t>documents defining specific parameter bindings for particular language environments</t>
<t>documents defining token formats, protocols, and procedures to be implemented in order to realize GSS-API services atop particular security mechanisms</t>
<t>This memo revises RFC-1508, making specific, incremental changes in response to implementation experience and liaison requests. It is intended, therefore, that this memo or a successor version thereto will become the basis for subsequent progression of the GSS-API specification on the standards track.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='2078' />
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