RFC 5792 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2010
SUN · 14 JUN 2026
PA-TNC: A Posture Attribute Protocol Compatible with Trusted Network Connect
Overview
RFC 5792, “PA-TNC: A Posture Attribute Protocol Compatible with Trusted Network Connect”, is a Proposed Standard document published in March 2010 by P. Sangster, K. Narayan. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document specifies PA-TNC, a Posture Attribute protocol identical to the Trusted Computing Group's IF-M 1.0 protocol. The document then evaluates PA-TNC against the requirements defined in the NEA Requirements specification. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
What “Proposed Standard” means
An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.
Read this RFC
The canonical text of RFC 5792 is hosted at rfc-editor.org. Available in TXT,HTML.
Other RFCs from 2010
- RFC 5791 RFC 2731 Is Obsolete
- RFC 5793 PB-TNC: A Posture Broker Protocol Compatible with Trusted Network Connect
- RFC 5790 Lightweight Internet Group Management Protocol Version 3 and Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 Protocols
- RFC 5794 A Description of the ARIA Encryption Algorithm
- RFC 5789 PATCH Method for HTTP
- RFC 5795 The RObust Header Compression Framework
- RFC 5788 IMAP4 Keyword Registry
- RFC 5796 Authentication and Confidentiality in Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode Link-Local Messages