The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure -- HTTP Transfer for CMP' (draft-ietf-pkix-cmp-transport-protocols-20.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Sean Turner and Stephen Farrell. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pkix-cmp-transport-protocols/ Technical Summary CMP was designed [RFC 2510] to be carried over various transport protocols, and the initial specification described how to do so for TCP, HTTP, FTP, and MIME (at varying levels of detail). The current version of CMP [RFC 4210] included an informative reference to a document that was supposed to define how to carry CMP over various transport protocols. That document expired in 2000, leaving no updated, detailed description for how to transport CMP messages. This document was prepared to replace that old one. The authors of this document resurrected the HTTP part of that document, after the original authors indicated that they were not available to work on this document. Working Group Summary As noted above, this document attracted little interest in the WG, because it focuses on use of CMP (which is not popular) in the 3GPP environment (which is equally uninteresting to most WG members). Document Quality The document is reasonably well written and fairly clear (modulo some spelling errors), especially considering that the authors are not native English speakers. Personnel Steve Kent (kent@bbn.com) is the Document Shepherd. Sean Turner (turners@ieca.com) is the Responsible AD.
