Document Action: 'Simple Public Key Infrastructure (SPKI) S-Expressions' to Informational RFC (draft-rivest-sexp-13.txt)

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Mon, 13 January 2025 19:14 UTC

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The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Simple Public Key Infrastructure (SPKI) S-Expressions'
  (draft-rivest-sexp-13.txt) as Informational RFC

This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF
Working Group.

The IESG contact person is Murray Kucherawy.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rivest-sexp/




Technical Summary

   This memo specifies the data structure representation that was
   devised to support Simple Public Key Infrastructure (SPKI, RFC 2692)
   certificates with the intent that it be more widely applicable.  It
   has been and is being used elsewhere.  There are multiple
   implementations in a variety of programming languages.  Uses of this
   representation are referred to in this document as "S-expressions".
   This memo makes precise the encodings of these SPKI S-expressions: it
   gives a "canonical form" for them, describes two "transport"
   representations, and also describe an "advanced" format for display
   to people.

Working Group Summary

   This was not the product of a working group.

   An extended (standard) Last Call and prior discussion on ART
   lists that appear to have been resolved.

Document Quality

   The document specifies a format already in use in some fairly
   old RFCs.

   No additional critical reviews are warranted.

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Marc Petit-Huguenin. The
   Responsible Area Director is Murray Kucherawy.

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