The IESG has approved the following document: - 'JSON Web Encryption (JWE)' (draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encryption-40.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Kathleen Moriarty and Stephen Farrell. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encryption/ Technical Summary This document, JSON Web Encryption (JWE), represents encrypted content using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) based data structures. Working Group Summary The document has clear working group consensus for publication, and has been reviewed by several WG participants since its initial adoption as a working group item. Document Quality This document has been reviewed and revised many times. There are multiple implementations of this document. Some of these are listed at: https://openid.net/developers/libraries/ (see the JWT/JWS/JWE/JWK/JWA Implementations section). The change log includes a detailed list of contributions, those which were significant do appear in the Acknowledgments section that will stay with the published version. Personnel Karen O'Donoghue is acting as the Document Shepherd. Kathleen Moriarty is the Responsible Area Director. IANA Note 'The registry uses the 5226 'Specification Required' registration policy.' RFC Editor Note: This draft is part of a set of drafts that cross 2 working groups. I am working through the reviews (shepherd just confirmed them for the OAuth ones) and would like them processed as a set. The JOSE drafts will hopefully be ready shortly as well. The set includes (in order): 1 draft-ietf-jose-json-web-signature 2 draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encryption 3 draft-ietf-jose-json-web-key 4 draft-ietf-jose-json-web-algorithms 5 draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token 6 draft-ietf-jose-cookbook 7 draft-ietf-oauth-assertions 8 draft-ietf-oauth-saml2-bearer 9 draft-ietf-oauth-jwt-bearer
