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Submission request to W3C (W3C Team Comment)
We, W3C members Agranat Systems, Inc. ("Agranat Systems"), and Microsoft
("Microsoft"), hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification
comprising the document linked below:
- User Agent Authentication Forms
which is referred to as "the submission". We request the submission
be known as the Authentication Form submission.
Abstract
Present mechanisms for obtaining credentials (username and password) for
use in HTTP authentication do not allow the web site designer sufficient
control over appearance, and are not suited to internationalization and
accessibility. This and the weakness of the basic authentication scheme
has discouraged the use of HTTP authentication. The latest IETF drafts of
the digest scheme have overcome the worst security problems with HTTP
authentication; this proposal attempts to address the associated user
interface concerns.
Intellectual Property Rights
Declaration of Agranat Systems, Inc.:
Agranat Systems delcares that it will assert no patent rights with respect
to the subject matter of this submission. Agranat Systems expressly
reserves all other rights it may have in the material and subject matter of
this contribution.
Agranat Systems expressly disclaims any and all warranties regarding this
contribution including any warranty that this contribution does not violate
the rights of others or is fit for a particular purpose.
Declaration of Microsoft Corporation:
Microsoft agrees that, upon adoption of this contribution as a W3C
Recommendation, any W3C member will be able to obtain a license from
Microsoft to implement and use the technology described in this
contribution for the purposes of supporting the W3C Recommendation on a
royalty-free basis. One condition of this license shall be the party's
agreement to not assert patent rights against Microsoft and other companies
for their implementation of the W3C Recommendation. Microsoft expressly
reserves all other rights it may have in the material and subject matter of
this contribution.
Microsoft expressly disclaims any and all warranties regarding this
contribution including any warranty that this contribution does not violate
the rights of others or is fit for a particular purpose.
Names
The following are registered marks refered to in this request or the
submission:
(none known)
Specification
The submission may distributed within the membership of the W3C free of any
fee.
The submission may be distributed publicly free of any fee
under the redistribution terms expressed in the W3C
copyright
statement.
Suggested action
We suggest that the Consortium create an extention to HTML that provides
the functionality this submission proposes. Ideally, this extention should
be usable with the current HTML Recommendations, as well as in any future
version of HTML. The urgency of improving Web security is such that we
would prefer that a stable recommendation on this technology be created
as quickly as possible, and are open to suggestions as to how this might be accomplished.
Resources
Agranat Systems will provide a document editor as needed for this work.
Change control
We are open to working with W3C and its members to produce future versions
of this proposal or its derivatives.
Contact
Inquiries from the public or press about this submission should be directed
to: Scott Lawrence, Agranat Systems, Inc.
Submitted
this 7th day of December, 1998,
Scott Lawrence, Agranat Systems, Inc.