Protocol Action: 'Authentication Context Certificate Extension' to Proposed Standard (draft-santesson-auth-context-extension-12.txt)
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The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Authentication Context Certificate Extension' (draft-santesson-auth-context-extension-12.txt) as Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Kathleen Moriarty. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-santesson-auth-context-extension/ Technical Summary This document defines an extension to certificates according to [RFC5280]. The extension defined in this document holds data about how the certificate subject was authenticated by the Certification Authority who issued the certificate where this extension appears. This document also defines one data structure for inclusion in this extension that designed to hold information when the subject is authenticated using a SAML assertion [SAML]. Working Group Summary This is an individual draft submission. It is however standards track as there are a number of implementations. Document Quality There are a number of working implementations, limited to a single market. The draft has received adequate review from other experts in PKI and SAML. The document has been reviewed by the implementors of the Swedish eID (government to citizen identity services) signing service. There are currently at least 3 fully interoperable implementations suggesting the specification has been well reviewed. An ASN.1 Syntax verification is requested by the document shepherd. A few minor idnits will be addressed when the submission window re-opens. Personnel Shepherd: Leif Johansson <leifj@sunet.se> Responsible Area Director: Kathleen Moriarty <kathleen.moriarty.ietf@gmail.com>