S/MIME IETF Face-to-Face Meeting Minutes

Chairperson Blake Ramsdell started the meeting with the traditional agenda bashing. No changes were made in the agenda for the meeting.

Blake then gave a status report on the the groups progress since the last meeting. The expectation is that working group last call will start on the ESS certificate id and CMS multiple signature drafts as soon updates to the documents are published. This should be by the beginning of next week. The RSA-KEM draft is still waiting for the X9.44 group to finish before it can progress. The caDES document has expired and is waiting for the ESS CertID draft to finish.

The question was raised again by the chair about the issue of taking our documents from their current RFC status up to Draft Standard status. If people actually want this to happen, please comment on the list. The current status is seen as sufficient by most implementers in the room and there seems to be no real push to try and make things happen.

Finally Blake looked at the proposed updated milestones for the group. The proposed milestones where agreed to by the attendees without comment. The proposed milestones are:

        IBE - last call at first of year
        KEM - when X9.44 finishes

Jim Schaad then gave a more detailed status call on several documents before the working group. The first is an indirect issue, but is blocking the symmetric key distribution document. The CMC document is currently being re-edited to deal with issues from the AD review. When this is complete it will go to working group last call and AD review at the same time.

One of the issues raised in the CMC review is the status of the id-data content type. The S/MIME working group essentially uses this as if it were id-mime-data, but did not actually assign a new content type at the time the S/MIME group was doing the V3 documents for backwards compatibility. The id-data type is actually setup for unstructured data. A proposal has been made and is to be placed on the list about creating a new id-cct-blob and re-defining id-data to be for mime. Comments should go the the list.

The ESS CertID draft has been updated on the web site and should be ready for last call. The current issues raised on the list are not understood as being issues and the author therefore recommends no changes.

The Multiple Signature Draft from Jim Schaad and Sean Turner is about half finished. They will publish the current state of the document in order to get a first cut of feedback within the next two weeks.

Mark Schertler then presented the current state of the Identity Based Encrypted drafts. The CMS draft should be substantially complete and he requests that people in the group read it. The Architecture draft is almost complete, it still needs to get the XML registry finalized with IANA and then both those documents should be ready for last call. The final draft is the math draft and is being progressed as an independent submission (draft-martin-ibcs-00.txt).