Protocol Action: 'Certificate Management over CMS (CMC)' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5272bis-10.txt)

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Thu, 12 February 2026 18:30 UTC

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The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Certificate Management over CMS (CMC)'
  (draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5272bis-10.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX
and SMIME Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Paul Wouters and Deb Cooley.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5272bis/




Technical Summary

   This document defines the base syntax for CMC, a Certificate
   Management protocol using the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS).
   This protocol addresses two immediate needs within the Internet
   Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) community:

   1.  The need for an interface to public key certification products
       and services based on CMS and PKCS #10 (Public Key Cryptography
       Standard), and

   2.  The need for a PKI enrollment protocol for encryption-only keys
       due to algorithm or hardware design.


Working Group Summary

    There is support in the LAMPS working group.  
    There was very little controversy about any of the updates to CMC.

Document Quality

    ASN.1 is used.  Once a placeholder values are inserted for the module
    identifiers that will be assigned by IANA, the ASN.1 modules in Appendix A
    compile without error.

    There are four normative downward references; however all four are already
    in the downref registry.  The four Informational RFCs are: RFC 2986,
    RFC 5911, RFC 5912, and RFC 6268.

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Russ Housley. The Responsible
   Area Director is Deb Cooley.

Protocol Action: 'Certificate Management over CMS… The IESG