[lamps] Proposed LAMPS Recharter

[Russ Housley <[e-mail]>]

Roman:

The LAMPS WG requests a recharter as below.  Of course, the milestones can be adjusted as we work.  It would be great if we could beat every one of them...

Russ

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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 LAMPS (Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX and SMIME) 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 LAMPS WG is now tackling these topics:

1. Specify the use of short-lived X.509 certificates for which no
revocation information is made available by the Certification Authority.
Short-lived certificates have a lifespan that is shorter than the time
needed to detect, report, and distribute revocation information.  As a
result, revoking short-lived certificates is unnecessary and pointless.

2. Update the specification for the cryptographic protection of email
headers -- both for signatures and encryption -- to improve the
implementation situation with respect to privacy, security, usability
and interoperability in cryptographically-protected electronic mail.
Most current implementations of cryptographically-protected electronic
mail protect only the body of the message, which leaves significant 
room for attacks against otherwise-protected messages.

3. The Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) is specified in RFC 4210,
and it offers a vast range of certificate management options.  CMP is
currently being used in many different industrial environments, but it
needs to be tailored to the specific needs of some environments.  The
LAMPS WG will develop a "lightweight" profile of CMP to more efficiently
support of these environments and better facilitate interoperable
implementation, while preserving cryptographic algorithm agility.  In
addition, necessary updates and clarifications to CMP will be specified
in a separate document.

In addition, the LAMPS WG may investigate other updates to documents
produced by the PKIX and S/MIME WG. The LAMPS WG may produce
clarifications where needed, but the LAMPS WG shall not adopt
anything beyond clarifications without rechartering.

PROPOSED MILESTONES

Nov 2020		Short-lived certificate conventions sent to IESG for BCP publication
Nov 2019 	Adopt a draft for short-lived certificate conventions 

Mar 2021		Header protection conventions sent to IESG for standards track publication
Dec 2019 	Adopt a draft for header protection conventions

Nov 2020		CMP updates sent to IESG for  standards track publication
Dec 2019 	Adopt a draft for CMP updates

Nov 2020		Lightweight CMP profile sent to IESG for informational publication
Dec 2019 	Adopt a draft for Lightweight CMP profile