At 7:46 AM -0700 5/27/10, The IESG wrote:
The IESG has received a request from the smime WG (smime) to consider the
following document:
- 'Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) '
RFC 5652 as a Full Standard
This specification contains normative down references to Proposed
Standards RFCs 5280 and 3281. The community previously reviewed
these downrefs when CMS (then RFC 3852) was Last Called for publication
as Draft Standard. The IESG would like to confirm that the community is
still comfortable with the maturity of these specifications when
referenced by a Full Standard.
I believe that RFC 5280 (PKIX) is likely to change in small ways that affect
interoperability with the current version of PKIX, but I think it will do so in
ways that do not directly pertain to the stability of CMS. That is, even if
PKIX changes somewhat post-5280, that is not a good enough reason to say
"nothing that relies on PKIX can advance until the PKIX WG promises never to
change the PKIX spec again".
Attribute certificates (RFC 3281) seems quite stable.
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