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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Steve Kent/BBN
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- PEM Minutes
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- The Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) Working Group, Chaired by Steve Kent
- (BBN) met for the first time at the Atlanta IETF meeting. The Working
- Group met on Monday and Tuesday afternoon and both sessions were well
- attended. The purpose of these sessions was to discuss unresolved
- issues related to the Internet drafts which describe PEM processing and
- the proposed PEM key management system. The goal of this meeting was to
- reach consensus on these issues so that revised Internet Drafts could be
- issued and the Internet Drafts could progress to RFCs. A number of the
- issues which populated the meeting agenda were articulated in postings
- to the PEM mailing list in previous weeks.
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- During the first session progress was made in resolving an issue related
- to PEM message processing details and John Linn (the editor of the
- relevant Internet Draft) agreed to make the necessary edits to this
- Internet Draft.
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- There also appeared to be consensus on how to accommodate, in an orderly
- fashion, a growing list of distinguished name attributes in PEM
- certificates. The proposal was made to register such attributes, for
- use in all Internet applications which make use of distinguished name,
- in the periodic IANA RFCs.
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- Other issues regarding public key management for PEM were discussed
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- o The role of RSADSI in the certification process,
- o Constraints on cross-certification, and
- o Representation of object class identification in certificates.
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- However, consensus was not achieved in the discussion of these issues
- and other contentious topics associated with the key management Internet
- Draft were not addressed due to insufficient time over both days of the
- PEM Working Group sessions.
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- During the Tuesday afternoon session RSADSI presented proposed
- organization and user registration procedures and corresponding legal
- documents. Copies of the organizational agreement were not available
- for distribution at the time of the meeting. RSADSI also described the
- proposed agreement for distributing source code for the RSA cryptosystem
- as part of a freely available, Internet implementation of PEM. Because
- some aspects of this agreement are involved with unresolved issues as
- cited above, finalization of the agreement details, etc., will require
- resolution of these issues.
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- As a result of the lack of progress at these Working Group meetings, an
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- interim meeting was proposed (later in the week) for September 11th at
- BBN in Cambridge, MA. This Working Group also expects to convene again
- in November at the next IETF meeting.
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- Attendees
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- Doug Barlow barlow@decwet.dec.com
- Jim Bidzos jim@rsa.com
- David Bolen db3l@nis.ans.net
- Nelson Bolyard nelson@sqi.com
- Mats Brunell mats.brunell@sics.se
- Vinton Cerf vcerf@nri.reston.va.us
- Stephen Crocker crocker@tis.com
- Steve Dusse spock@rsa.com
- Jeffrey Edelheit edelheit@mitre.org
- James Ellis jte@cert.sei.cmu.edu
- Barbara Fraser byf@cert.sei.cmu.edu
- Deborah Futcher dfutche@eco.twg.com
- Maria Gallagher maria@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov
- James Galvin galvin@tis.com
- Joe Godsil jgodsil@ncsa.uiuc.edu
- William Griffeth billg@usl.com
- Steve Hardcastle-Kille S.Kille@cs.ucl.ac.uk
- Alton Hoover hoover@nis.ans.net
- Neil Katin katin@eng.sun.com
- Charles Kaufman kaufman@dsmail.enet.dec.com
- Stephen Kent kent@bbn.com
- Vincent Lau vincent.lau@eng.sun.com
- John Linn linn@zendia.enet.dec.com
- David Lippke lippke@utdallas.edu
- Jack Liu liu@koala.enet.dec.com
- Louis Mamakos louie@ni.umd.edu
- Ellen McDermott emcd@osf.org
- April Merrill abmerri@tycho.ncsc.mil
- Paul Mockapetris pvm@darpa.mil
- Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu
- Richard Parker rp@mbunix.mitre.org
- P. Rajaram rajaram@sun.com
- Michael Reilly reilly@nsl.dec.com
- Jeffrey Schiller jis@mit.edu
- Aaron Schuman schuman@sgi.com
- Ron Sharp rls@neptune.att.com
- Robert Shirey shirey@mitre.org
- Mark Stein marks@eng.sun.com
- Ronald Tencati tencati@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Theodore Tso tytso@mit.edu
- Brian Yasaki bky@eco.twg.com
- Peter Yee yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov
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