The COST team in Europe I believe are also using classic-PEM. I think if
there is sufficient interest in the community to furthur classic-PEM as
IETF standards, then there needs to be a home for that activity to
discuss this. While the PEM-DEV could be used for this, I think there is
too much biggotry towards classic-PEM expressed by the members of PEM-DEV
list which would only be unproductive for all the community.
I don't know if a WG can have two mailing lists or not, but it looks
clear that there is a need for two if classic-PEM and MIME-capable PEM
(i.e. MOSS or S/MIME) are to be pursued independently by different
factions. I feel that they can co-exist just as SMTP and MIME do today.
I think forming this second mailing list and pursuing classic-PEM is
going to require alot of energy from the interested party. I should hope
that in the spirit of fairness, IETF would endorse it. But life isn't
always fair.
Regards,
Ali