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RFC 7542: The Network Access Identifier

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In order to provide inter-domain authentication services, it is necessary to have a standardized method that domains can use to identify each other's users. This document defines the syntax for the Network Access Identifier (NAI), the user identifier submitted by the client prior to accessing resources. This document is a revised version of RFC 4282. It addresses issues with international character sets and makes a number of other corrections to RFC 4282.

Document record

Document ID
RFC7542
Published
May 2015
Authors
A. DeKok
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
sec
Pages
30
Also known as
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Obsoletes:
RFC 4282

Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 3 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 2486 (1999)
  2. RFC 4282 (2005)
  3. RFC 7542 (2015)

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