Technical Summary
This specification defines the "Authentication-Info" and
"Proxy-Authentication-Info" response header fields, for use in HTTP
authentication schemes that need to return information once the
client's authentication credentials have been accepted.
Review and Consensus
This document separates the definition of the "Authentication-Info" and
"Proxy-Authentication-Info" HTTP header fields from RFC2617, so that
they can be used by other HTTP authentication schemes (including some
being actively developed).
As such, the header fields have already enjoyed implementation and
deployment; this merely re-specifies them for more generic use.
Other Working Groups depend upon this specification to progress
their work items. The specification has been reviewed, and its content
has been uncontroversial.
Personnel
The document shepherd is Mark Nottingham; the responsible Area Director
is Barry Leiba.