Re: [KEYPROV] Protocol Action: 'Portable Symmetric Key Container (PSKC)' to Proposed Standard

[Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]>]

Congratulations and thank you for all the hard work on this.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, The IESG <[e-mail]> wrote:
> The IESG has approved the following document:
>
> - 'Portable Symmetric Key Container (PSKC) '
>   <draft-ietf-keyprov-pskc-09.txt> as a Proposed Standard
>
>
> This document is the product of the Provisioning of Symmetric Keys Working Group.
>
> The IESG contact persons are Tim Polk and Sean Turner.
>
> A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-keyprov-pskc-09.txt
>
> Technical Summary
>
>  This document specifies an XML-based key format for transport and
>  provisioning of symmetric keys to different types of crypto modules.
>  For example, One Time Password (OTP) shared secrets or symmetric
>  cryptographic keys to strong authentication devices.  A standard key
>  transport format enables enterprises to deploy best-of-breed
>  solutions combining components from different vendors into the same
>  infrastructure.
>
>  Working Group Summary
>
>    There was consensus in the WG to publish the document.
>
>  Document Quality
>
>    The document is a product of the KEYPROV working group
>    and the group has spend a fair amount of time working on
>    this specification to ensure high quality output.
>
>    Two independent implementations have been created by the
>    document authors. A third implementation has been created
>    by a student of Tim Polk. The code is, however, not
>    available as open source.
>
>   Media type review was initiated 4/22 by the AD.
>
>  Personnel
>
>    Hannes Tschofenig is the document shepherd for this document.
>   Tim Polk is the responsible AD.
>
>



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