[rfc-i] draft-iab-rfc-use-of-pdf-01

[housley at vigilsec.com (Russ Housley)]

A new version of I-D, draft-housley-rfc-and-id-signatures-00.txt
has been successfully submitted by Russell Housley and posted to the
IETF repository.

Name:		draft-housley-rfc-and-id-signatures
Revision:	00
Title:		Digital Signatures on RFC and Internet-Draft Documents
Document date:	2016-02-23
Group:		Individual Submission
Pages:		16
URL:            https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-housley-rfc-and-id-signatures-00.txt
Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-housley-rfc-and-id-signatures/
Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-housley-rfc-and-id-signatures-00


Abstract:
  This document specifies the conventions for digital signatures on
  RFCs and Internet-Draft documents.  For most file types, the
  Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) is used to create a detached
  signature, which is stored in a separate companion file so that no
  existing utilities are impacted by the addition of the digital
  signature.  For Portable Document Format (PDF) files types, embedded
  signatures are supported.

  This document (once approved) obsoletes RFC 5485.


On 2/23/16, 11:45 AM, "rfc-interest on behalf of Russ Housley" <rfc-interest-bounces at rfc-editor.org on behalf of housley at vigilsec.com> wrote:

> draft-iab-rfc-use-of-pdf-01 says:
> 
> Recommendation: At this time, the authors see no need for Internet-
> Drafts to be signed with a PDF digital signature.
> 
> The IETF Secretariat currently signs all I-Ds.  See RFC 5485.
> 
> It seems to me that the decision to sign I-Ds should be left to the IESG and IETF Secretariat.  I suggest that this be removed from the document.
> 
> Russ