Mike,
The Dec 97 S/MIME WG decided that the certificate management protocol work
should be performed by the PKIX WG. Specifically, the S/MIME WG decided
that the CRS work should stay in the PKIX WG. The S/MIME WG rejected the
inclusion of CRS in the S/MIME WG charter. The 1/28/98 S/MIME v3 Cert Spec
includes a big chunk of the CRS spec (specifically, the Service Indicators
and degenerate signedData). This is a clear contradiction of the Dec 97
S/MIME WG's decisions.
The Dec 97 S/MIME WG decided that the PKIX WG should define the
IETF-standard, application-independent cert mgmt protocol. The S/MIME WG
should simply define how those cert mgmt objects are protected in CMS
objects and how the resultant CMS objects are transported via MIME. The
S/MIME WG should not be defining a redundant cert mgmt protocol. By
defining the use of Service Indicators in the certificate request and the
use of degenerate signedData for the certificate response, the 1/28/98
S/MIME v3 Cert Spec does indeed define a redundant protocol to the PKIX CMP.
In summary, I believe that once the "harmonized" IETF standard protocols are
completed, then a separate S/MIME WG spec should be drafted which specifies
the use of MIME to communicate CMS-protected "harmonized" cert mgmt protocol
objects as a "MUST implement". At that point, the new spec could also
define how to transport PKCS #10 objects as a "MAY implement" for the
purposes of backward conpatability with v2 S/MIME MUAs.
- John Pawling
At 09:58 PM 2/2/98 -0700, Michael Myers wrote:
John,
The agreement reached in D.C. clearly pointed to CRS, as documented in the
minutes. No objections were raised to the point. We further discussed
details of this task in San Francisco. Again, no objections were raised on
the point.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: John Pawling <jsp(_at_)jgvandyke(_dot_)com>
To: ietf-smime(_at_)imc(_dot_)org <ietf-smime(_at_)imc(_dot_)org>
Date: Monday, February 02, 1998 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: Redundant Cert Mgmt Protocols
All,
I agree with Paul. His statements are consistent with my position.
- John Pawling