Re: [Spasm] WG Review: Some PKIX and SMIME (spasm)

On 6/22/2016 7:33 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> Two things:
>
> 1. The IETF96 slot for this may be moving. I'll send mail when/if
> that happens but please be aware of it as you plan travel. (The
> draft agenda remains a draft agenda until it's a final agenda:-)
>
> 2. We got a comment that the WG name might be considered undesirable.
> I don't want to debate that but since it's a "don't care" we'll
> likely change the WG name. Feel free to suggest other names here in
> the next day or two and Kathleen and I will pick a winner. Or if
> folks don't suggest stuff, Kathleen and I will just pick something.
> (We'll ensure the mailing list migrates etc. and will send a
> heads-up on that as it happens.)

PAIN: PKIX and Internationalized Names

:)

Sean

> Cheers,
> S.
>
> On 17/06/16 17:33, The IESG wrote:
>> A new IETF WG has been proposed in the Security Area. The IESG has not
>> made any determination yet. The following draft charter was submitted,
>> and is provided for informational purposes only. Please send your
>> comments to the IESG mailing list (iesg@ietf.org) by 2016-06-27.
>>
>> Some PKIX and SMIME (spasm)
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Current status: Proposed WG
>>
>> Chairs:
>>    TBD
>>
>> Assigned Area Director:
>>    Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
>>
>> Security Area Directors:
>>    Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
>>    Kathleen Moriarty <Kathleen.Moriarty.ietf@gmail.com>
>>   
>> Mailing list:
>>    Address: spasm@ietf.org
>>    To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/spasm
>>    Archive: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/spasm/
>>
>> Charter: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-spasm/
>>
>>
>> The PKIX and S/MIME Working Groups have been closed for some time.  Some
>> updates have been proposed to the X.509 certificate documents produced
>> by the PKIX Working Group and the electronic mail security documents
>> produced by the S/MIME Working Group.
>>
>> The SPASM (Some PKIX and S/MIME) Working Group is chartered to make
>> updates where there is a known constituency interested in real
>> deployment and there is at least one sufficiently well specified
>> approach to the update so that the working group can sensibly evaluate
>> whether to adopt a proposal.  The current charter encompasses updates to
>> satisfy the following needs:
>>
>> 1. Specify the way to include an i18n email address as a subject
>>     alternative name and an issuer alternative name.
>>     draft-melnikov-spasm-eai-addresses is a proposal in this space.
>>
>> 2. Specify the way to use authenticated encryption in S/MIME.
>>     draft-schaad-rfc5751-bis is a proposal in this space.
>>
>> In addition, the SPASM Working Group may investigate other updates to
>> the documents produced by the PKIX and S/MIME Working Groups, but the
>> SPASM Working Group shall not adopt any of these potential work items
>> without rechartering. No such re-chartering is envisaged until one or
>> more of the above work items have been successfully delivered to the RFC
>> editor queue.
>>
>> Milestones:
>>
>> TBD
>>
>>
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