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Re: [dane] Last Call: <draft-ietf-dane-openpgpkey-05.txt> (Using DANE to Associate OpenPGP public keys with email addresses) to Proposed Standard

manning <bmanning@karoshi.com> Thu, 10 September 2015 17:41 UTC

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I’d have to agree with Simon here.  


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On 10September2015Thursday, at 10:35, Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:

> I believe it would be a mistake to publish this document without having
> it include a discussion of its relationship to RFC 4648.  As far as I
> can tell, the CERT record defined in RFC 4648 solves roughly the same
> problem as OPENPGPKEY and CERT is already deployed with support in (for
> example) GnuPG.  I believe the community would benefit from sorting out
> the relationship before publication, not after, when we would have two
> RFCs describing solutions for what appears to be the same problem.
> 
> /Simon
> 
> The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> writes:
> 
>> The IESG has received a request from the DNS-based Authentication of
>> Named Entities WG (dane) to consider the following document:
>> - 'Using DANE to Associate OpenPGP public keys with email addresses'
>>  <draft-ietf-dane-openpgpkey-05.txt> as Proposed Standard
>> 
>> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
>> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
>> ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2015-09-11. Exceptionally, comments may be
>> sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the
>> beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting.
>> 
>> Abstract
>> 
>> 
>>   OpenPGP is a message format for email (and file) encryption that
>>   lacks a standardized lookup mechanism to securely obtain OpenPGP
>>   public keys.  This document specifies a method for publishing and
>>   locating OpenPGP public keys in DNS for a specific email address
>>   using a new OPENPGPKEY DNS Resource Record.  Security is provided via
>>   DNSSEC.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The file can be obtained via
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dane-openpgpkey/
>> 
>> IESG discussion can be tracked via
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dane-openpgpkey/ballot/
>> 
>> 
>> No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
>> 
>> 
>>

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