Technical Summary
This document is a revision of RFC 2554, which specifies the SMTP AUTH
command, which allows a SMTP client to initiate a SASL authentication
exchange with a SMTP server.
This revision of RFC 2554 updated references, cleaned up ABNF, updated
description of response codes, deprecated one response code, added one
new enhanced status code, clarified interaction with SMTP PIPELINING
extension, added SHOULD requirement regarding use of SASLPrep for
preparing authorization identities, added additional examples
and also clarified some other issues which weren't clear in RFC 2554.
Working Group Summary
This document is not the result of a WG.
Document Quality
The document has been reviewed by Chris Newman, Dave Cridland,
Frank Ellermann, John Klensin, Tony Finch, Abhijit Menon-Sen and
Philip Guenther. This document was reviewed for the IESG by Ted Hardie
the responsible Area Director is Lisa Dusseault.