RFC 6806 on Kerberos Principal Name Canonicalization and Cross-Realm Referrals

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        RFC 6806

        Title:      Kerberos Principal Name Canonicalization and 
                    Cross-Realm Referrals 
        Author:     S. Hartman, Ed.,
                    K. Raeburn, 
                    L. Zhu
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       November 2012
        Mailbox:    hartmans-ietf@mit.edu, 
                    raeburn@mit.edu, 
                    lzhu@microsoft.com
        Pages:      19
        Characters: 47572
        Updates:    RFC4120

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-krb-wg-kerberos-referrals-15.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6806.txt

This memo documents a method for a Kerberos Key Distribution Center
(KDC) to respond to client requests for Kerberos tickets when the
client does not have detailed configuration information on the realms
of users or services.  The KDC will handle requests for principals in
other realms by returning either a referral error or a cross-realm
Ticket-Granting Ticket (TGT) to another realm on the referral path.
The clients will use this referral information to reach the realm of
the target principal and then receive the ticket.  This memo also
provides a mechanism for verifying that a request has not been
tampered with in transit.  This memo updates RFC 4120.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]

This document is a product of the Kerberos WG Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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