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Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication Status

This specification has been revised 5 times since RFC 5451 (2009). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.

Revision timeline

  1. RFC 5451 (2009)
  2. →RFC 6577 (2012)
  3. →RFC 7001 (2013)
  4. →RFC 7410 (2014)
  5. →RFC 7601 (2015)
  6. →RFC 8601 (2019) ✓

Current version — implement against this

  • RFC 8601Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication StatusCurrent
    May 2019proposed standard

Superseded versions — historical reference only

  • RFC 5451Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication StatusObsoleted
    April 2009proposed standardreplaced by RFC7001
  • RFC 6577Authentication-Results Registration Update for Sender Policy Framework (SPF) ResultsObsoleted
    March 2012proposed standardreplaced by RFC7001
  • RFC 7001Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication StatusObsoleted
    September 2013proposed standardreplaced by RFC7601
  • RFC 7410A Property Types Registry for the Authentication-Results Header FieldObsoleted
    December 2014proposed standardreplaced by RFC7601
  • RFC 7601Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication StatusObsoleted
    August 2015proposed standardreplaced by RFC8601

This lineage is derived automatically from the “obsoletes” relationships recorded in the public RFC Editor index — no editorial judgement is applied to the ordering. The most recent document in the chain is RFC 8601 (May 2019).

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