The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'OpenPGP Message Format'
<draft-ietf-openpgp-formats-08.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This
document is the product of the An Open Specification for Pretty Good
Privacy Working Group.
The IESG contact persons are Jeffrey Schiller and Marcus Leech.
Technical Summary
This document defines the formats used by "Phil's Pretty Good
Privacy" otherwise known as PGP.
Working Group Summary
After serious discussion the working group came to consensus on this
document.
Protocol Quality
The formats used here are the result of a second generation
engineering effort to define an efficient, one pass format for
representing information encrypted or signed with PGP. They were
reviewed by Jeffrey I. Schiller for the IESG.
Note to RFC Editor: Please add the following as an IESG Note:
This document defines many tag values, yet it doesn't describe a
mechanism for adding new tags (for new features). Traditionally the
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) handles the allocation of
new values for future expansion and RFCs usually define the procedure
to be used by the IANA. However there are subtle (and not so subtle)
interactions that may occur in this protocol between new features and
existing features which result in a significant reduction in over all
security. Therefore this document does not define an extension
procedure. Instead requests to define new tag values (say for new
encryption algorithms for example) should be forwarded to the IESG
Security Area Directors for consideration or forwarding to the
appropriate IETF Working Group for consideration.