The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The application/pkix-attr-cert Media Type for Attribute Certificates ' <draft-ietf-pkix-attr-cert-mime-type-03.txt> as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) 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-pkix-attr-cert-mime-type-03.txt Technical Summary This document defines a MIME content type (application/pkix-attr-cert) for carrying an attribute certificate [RFC 3281]. This content type is needed to enable transport of attribute (as opposed to public-key) certificates) via protocols that make use of MIME encoding, e.g., HTTP. Working Group Summary The working group expressed consensus to approve this document as an informational RFC. Document Quality The document is very brief (only 4 pages, including all, of the boilerplate) and well-written. Personnel Steve Kent is the Document Shepherd; Tim Polk is the Responsible Area Director. RFC Editor Note Please make the following changes: In Section 14.1: OLD [RFC3281] S. Farrell, S., and R. Housley, "An Internet Attribute Certificate Profile for Authorization", RFC 3281, April 2002. NEW [RFC5755] Farrell, S., R. Housley, and S. Turner, "An Internet Attribute Certificate Profile for Authorization", RFC 5755, January 2010. Please make the following two global substitutions: s/RFC 3281/RFC 5755/ s/[RFC3281]/[RFC5755]/
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