Re: [MSEC] WG Action: Conclusion of Multicast Security (msec)

[Brian Weis <bew at cisco.com>]

On Oct 17, 2011, at 10:14 AM, IESG Secretary wrote:

> The Multicast Security (msec) working group in the Security Area has
> concluded. The IESG contact persons are Sean Turner and Stephen Farrell.
> 
> The msec working group has completed its primary charter items, and is
> officially closing. The mailing list and list archive will be retained.
> 
> The msec working group was primarily focused on standardizing protocols
> for securing group communication over Internets, and in particular over
> the global Internet. Some of the working group products include: The
> Multicast Group Security Architecture (RFC 3740), The Multicast Security
> (MSEC) Group Key Management Architecture (RFC 4046), MIKEY: Multimedia
> Internet KEYing (RFC 3830), GSAKMP: Group Secure Association Key
> Management Protocol (RFC 4535), Multicast Extensions to the Security
> Architecture for the Internet Protocol (RFC 5374), and The Group Domain
> of Interpretation (RFC 6407).
> 
> We would like to thank all of the IETF participants who have contributed
> to the various documents produced by the msec working group and to the
> successful completion of their deliverables. We especially thank the
> working group's co-chairs: Ran Canetti, Lakshminath Dondeti, Brian Weis,
> and Vincent Roca.

And thanks also to Thomas Hardjono, who was an original co-chair along with Ran Canetti.

Thanks,
Brian