[dispatch] HTTP Request Signing

[Justin Richer <[e-mail]>]

I would like to present and discuss HTTP Request signing at both the DISPATCH and SECDISPATCH meetings at IETF106 in Singapore. This I-D has been floating around for years now and has been adopted by a number of different external groups and efforts:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cavage-http-signatures <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cavage-http-signatures>

I’ve spoken with the authors of the draft and we’d like to find out how to bring this forward to publication within the IETF. I’m targeting both dispatch groups because this represents the intersection of both areas, and I think we’d get different perspectives from each side that we should consider. 

There have been a number of other drafts that have approached HTTP request signing as well (I’ve written two of them myself), but none has caught on to date and none have made it to RFC. Lately, though, I’ve been seeing a lot of renewed effort in different sectors, and in particular the financial sector and cloud services, to have a general purpose HTTP message signing capability. As such, I think it’s time to push something forward. 

I’ve reached out to the chairs for both DISPATCH and SECDISPATCH to request a presentation slot.

Thank you, and I’ll see you all in Singapore!
 — Justin