Greetings,
At the risk of being called too simplistic or ignorant, please allow
me to suggest one way to reach a closure:
1) Rename the MIME-PEM ID as "Adding Security to MIME messages" and
move it to an appropriate MIME WG (if one exists) OR form a new WG in
which case I suggest seriously integrating the much anticipated
MIME-PGP with MIME-PEM and call it Secure-MIME.
2) Make ARPA funded TIS/PEM Version 6.1 (a reference implementation of
the classic-PEM) available by anonymous ftp without added support.
3) Continue to enhance the ability to deploy classic-PEM through X.509
work, various key-management solutions, and better user interfaces.
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