Protocol Action: 'Certificate Extensions and Attributes Supporting Authentication in PPP and Wireless LAN' to Proposed Standard

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Thu, 11 March 2004 22:53 UTC

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Certificate Extensions and Attributes Supporting Authentication in PPP and Wireless LAN' to Proposed Standard
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The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Certificate Extensions and Attributes Supporting Authentication in PPP and 
   Wireless LAN '
   <draft-ietf-pkix-wlan-extns-05.txt> as a Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) Working 
Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Steve Bellovin and Russ Housley.

Technical Summary

Certificates have to be flagged for particular uses.  Thus, an email certificate 
can't be used for code-signing.  This document describes how to mark a certificate 
for PPP and Wireless LAN authentication.


Working Group Summary

There was working group consensus to advance this document.



Protocol Quality

The document was reviewed for the IESG by Steve Bellovin.