a dedicated SASL WG

["Raif S. Naffah" <[e-mail]>]

hi there,

There are currently many SASL-related drafts other than the one (SASL 
GSS-API mechanisms 
<http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-cat-sasl-gssapi-02.txt>) 
listed under the Common Authentication Technology WG drafts, namely:

A. new SASL mechanisms:

    1. Secure Remote Password SASL Mechanism
    <http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-burdis-cat-srp-sasl-04.txt>

    2. SM2 -- A Session Management Capable SASL Mechanism
    <http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-naffah-cat-sasl-sm2-00.txt>

    3. X.509 Authentication SASL Mechanism
    <http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ldapext-x509-sasl-03.txt>

    4. ISO/IEC 9798-3 Authentication SASL Mechanism
    <http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-zuccherato-9798-3-sasl-02.txt>

B. Java SASL API:

    5. The Java SASL Application Program Interface
    <http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-weltman-java-sasl-04.txt>

C. Using SASL with other protocols:

    6. Upgrading to SASL Within HTTP/1.1
    <http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-burdis-http-sasl-00.txt>

    7. SASL in HTTP/1.1
    <http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-nystrom-http-sasl-00.txt>

    8. LDAP Authentication Response Control
    <http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-weltman-ldapv3-auth-response-03.txt>


As clarified by the Common Authentication Technology (CAT) WG Chair, John 
Linn, SASL mechanisms, APIs, and SASL/protocol integration documents have 
not been work items of the CAT-WG, and CAT has itself been placed in an 
idle state, pending on possible advancement of its existing RFCs but not 
undertaking new work.

My question to the list is: how ready, and/or willing, is the SASL 
community to charter a new WG dedicated to SASL?


TIA + cheers;
rsn

cc: John Linn, Jeffrey Schiller, Marcus Leech.