[rfc-dist] RFC 4681 on TLS User Mapping Extension

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        RFC 4681

        Title:      TLS User Mapping Extension 
        Author:     S. Santesson, A. Medvinsky,
                    J. Ball
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       October 2006
        Mailbox:    stefans at microsoft.com, 
                    arimed at microsoft.com, 
                    joshball at microsoft.com
        Pages:      11
        Characters: 20682
        Updates:    RFC4346
        See-Also:   

        I-D Tag:    draft-santesson-tls-ume-07.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4681.txt

This document specifies a TLS extension that enables clients to send
generic user mapping hints in a supplemental data handshake message
defined in RFC 4680.  One such mapping hint is defined in an
informative section, the UpnDomainHint, which may be used by a server
to locate a user in a directory database.  Other mapping hints may be
defined in other documents in the future.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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