Werner Koch wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:53:26 +0100, Ian Grigg said:
What is the status of the OpenPGP draft?
IIRC, the latest draft has expired and is thus not anymore available
from the usual places.
it occurred to me that one of the barriers
is that OpenPGP is not a standard, whereas
x.509 is.
I just checked the rfc-index and both, OpenPGP (rfc2440) and X.509
PKIX profile (rfc3280), are in PROPOSED STANDARD status. You don't
want to call plain ISO X.509 a practically useful standard without
specifying a profile.
Me, I wouldn't call x.509 practically useful in
any contexts ;-) But the point is that it has
the market, it has the support of all the major
players, whereas rfc2440 has not, and it has the
ISO label. All of these things equate to "it's
a standard" without much drilling down into what
that means.
We talked about moving to DRAFT status since mid 1999 with no result
though. Derek, any new plans on moving forward?
Yes, I don't understand it. As I understand,
about a year ago it was feature frozen, and a
list of issues had to be cleaned up.
iang