PKIX Part 4 I-D

[Warwick Ford <[e-mail]>]

We have issued a revised version of the Certificate Policy/Practices
Framework that was previously distributed and discussed at the San Jose
meeting.  This new revision has attempted to take into account feedback
from the San Jose meeting and from several individuals.

The main changes are:

- Reduce the volume of material in a major way.  This has largely involved
removing redundant material, and organizing the document better.
- Improve the explanatory material and definitions.
- Some technical changes in the light of feedback from an effort by the
Canadian Govt. to use the framework in writing real certificate policies.
- Align the material better with the ABA's work.

We have titled this document as a draft of PKIX Part 4, and suggested that
the final disposition of this work be an Informational RFC.  Such matters
are, of course, fully open for debate by the PKIX group.  We can discuss at
the Memphis meeting.

Warwick


> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
> directories. This draft is a work item of the Public-Key Infrastructure 
> (X.509) Working Group of the IETF.                                        
>
>       Title     : Internet Public Key Infrastructure  Part IV: Certificate
>                   Policy and Certification Practices Framework            
>       Author(s) : S. Chokhani, W. Ford
>       Filename  : draft-ietf-pkix-ipki-part4-00.txt
>       Pages     : 42
>       Date      : 03/26/1997
>
>This document presents a framework to assist the writers of certificate 
>policies or certification practice statements for certification authorities
>and public key infrastructures.   In particular, the framework provides a 
>comprehensive list of topics that potentially (at the writer's discretion) 
>need to be covered in a certificate policy definition or a certification 
>practice statement. It is intended that this document, when fully 
>developed, be published as an Informational RFC.                           
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