The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) ' <draft-ietf-smime-rfc3852bis-00.txt> as a Draft Standard This document is the product of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Tim Polk and Pasi Eronen. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-smime-rfc3852bis-00.txt Technical Summary This document specifies the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS), which is used to digitally sign, digest, authenticate, or encrypt arbitrary message content. The content of this document is based on RFC 3852 but also incorporates errata and the clarifications previously published as RFC 4853. Working Group Summary RFC 3852 was a product of the smime working group. CMS is widely referenced, and is a key building block for specifications developed by the S/MIME, ltans, and keyprov working groups. Document Quality Two or more interoperable implementations have been identified for all features. The implementation report is available at: http://www.ietf.org/iesg/implementation/report-rfc3852.txt Personnel Tim Polk is the responsible Area Director _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce