I think that the wording concerning reputation and accreditation schemes
is overly restrictive.
We clearly do not intend to describe a new third party reputation or
accreditation mechanism. But such mechanisms exist and they will be used
in combination with DKIM before the end of this year.
It is therefore important for the mechanism used to announce the
existence of a TTP accreditation be within the scope of the charter. It
would be most unfortunate if the only option for parties that have
obtained such accreditation would be to make use of an extension that is
not described within the text, thus causing the specification to be
forked before the CFP has been issued.
The linkage mechanism does not need to be at all complex. All that is
required is the ability to include the necessary attribute within the
key record. The TTP industry is currently standardized on PKIX/X509. If
other accreditation publication mechanisms such as the one I developed
with Meng are standardized they can define their own attributes.
This can be addressed in a separate draft that is separate from the core
if the group feels this is the right approach. It would be much better
for the approach adopted to receive review from the WG than progress as
an independent proposal or as a de-facto standard.
The change required is minimal:
The working group will NOT consider related topics, such as reputation
and
accreditation systems, and message encryption.
Becomes
The working group will NOT consider related topics, such as reputation
and
accreditation systems, and message encryption. The working group may
however
address issues arising from interoperation with already deployed
protocols
that address these issues.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ietf-mailsig(_at_)mail(_dot_)imc(_dot_)org
[mailto:owner-ietf-mailsig(_at_)mail(_dot_)imc(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of Dave
Crocker
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 9:57 AM
To: ietf-mailsig
Subject: revised Proposed Charter
Folks,
Based on the list discussion, a revised charter is now posted at:
<http://mipassoc.org/mass/mass-charter-05dc.txt>
It uses Ned's language concerning restriction of changes to
draft-allman-dkim-*
and it states that the working group output will be standards-track.
Both changes are in the first paragraph of the Description.
Unless there is a resounding outcry against this latest draft of the
text, that
is what will be discussed at the Paris meeting.
d/
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Dave Crocker
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