The PEM Working Group met at the San Jose IETF on Tuesday December 6,
1994 at 9:30AM PST.
Jeff Schiller Chaired the session in the absence of and at the request
of Steve Kent, PEM Working Group Chair.
There was one item on the agenda: Consideration of moving the MIME-PEM
integration documents (draft-ietf-pem-mime-07.txt and
draft-ietf-pem-sigenc-02.txt) to proposed standard.
Jeff started the discussion by asking for a show of hands of those who
had read the latest documents. Roughly 25% of the 60 or so people
present indicated that they had read the documents. Roughly 50%
indicated that they had read the document versions as they existed after
the Toronto IETF.
Jim Galvin, one of the document's authors explained that the changes
made since Toronto were to accommodate input received at the Toronto
meeting. Beyond that input the only other change was the removal of the
PGP key identifiers from consideration.
Additional discussion revolved around the lack of implementation
experience, only TIS has an implementation. Some concern was raised that
no one really knew how to process a recursive MIME message that had PEM
enhancements embedded in it.
Discussion continued for about 30 minutes after which no new points were
being raised. At this point Jeff asked those present if anyone objected
to moving the documents forward as is, allowing for editing changes that
have no direct impact on the protocol. The consensus was to move on. We
agreed that the next step is to publish a last call on the mailing list.
Assuming the last call on the mailing list results in a consensus
position, Steve Kent, Working Group Chair will decide when to request
the document be advanced to proposed standard.
-Jeff