Subject: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-zeilenga-auth-lvl-00.txt

From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 07:05:44 -0700

This I-D describes upon one possible method for classifying
authentication mechanisms by level which may be useful in
specification and/or implementation of authentication,
authorization, and access control systems.

Enjoy!  Kurt

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>Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-zeilenga-auth-lvl-00.txt
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>        Title           : Authentication Mechanisms Levels
>        Author(s)       : K. Zeilenga
>        Filename        : draft-zeilenga-auth-lvl-00.txt
>        Pages           : 9
>        Date            : 24-Apr-01
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>Numerous authentication mechanisms are in use today on the Internet.
>It is desirable to give administrators the choice of which mechanisms
>to support in their deployments and to give users the choice which
>mechanisms to use.  This document offers terminology designed to be
>easily understandable by users and administrators of Internet
>services, while being meaningful to designers and developers of these
>services and associated Internet protocols.
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