History
- July 1991: IETF Common Authentication Technology (CAT) Working Group meets in Atlanta, led by John Linn
- September 1993: GSSAPI version 1 (RFC 1508, RFC 1509)
- May 1995: Windows NT 3.51 released, includes SSPI
- June 1996: Kerberos mechanism for GSSAPI (RFC 1964)
- January 1997: GSSAPI version 2 (RFC 2078)
- October 1997: SASL published, includes GSSAPI mechanism (RFC 2222)
- January 2000: GSSAPI version 2 update 1 (RFC 2743, RFC 2744)
- August 2004: KITTEN working group meets to continue CAT activities
- May 2006: Secure Shell use of GSSAPI standardised (RFC 4462)
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