This message initiates an SMIME Working Group Last Call on the document:
Title : Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)
Version 3.2 Message Specification
Author(s) : B. Ramsdell, S. Turner
Filename : draft-ietf-smime-3851bis-05.txt
Pages : 45
Date : 2008-8-21
This document defines Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)
version 3.2. S/MIME provides a consistent way to send and receive secure
MIME data. Digital signatures provide authentication, message integrity,
and non-repudiation with proof of origin. Encryption provides data
confidentiality. Compression can be used to reduce data size. This
document obsoletes RFC 3851.
A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-smime-3851bis-05.txt
The purpose of this WG Last Call is to ensure that the Working Group has
achieved consensus that the document is suitable for publication as a
Standards Track RFC.
Please review the document for both technical and editorial problems.
Technical issues should be discussed on this list. Editorial issues may be
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The Last Call period will end on 8 September 2008.
Upon completion of the last call, the WG chairs will take action based upon
the consensus of the WG. As the authors are also the WG co-chairs, Russ
Housley has offered to make consensus calls and the WG chairs have agreed to
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that the document, after possible editorial or
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