The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Textual Encodings of PKIX, PKCS, and CMS Structures' (draft-josefsson-pkix-textual-10.txt) as Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Kathleen Moriarty. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-josefsson-pkix-textual/ Technical Summary This document describes and discusses the textual encodings of the Public-Key Infrastructure X.509 (PKIX), Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS), and Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS). The textual encodings are well-known, are implemented by several applications and libraries, and are widely deployed. This document is intended to articulate the de-facto rules that existing implementations operate by, and to give recommendations that will promote interoperability. Working Group Summary As an individual submission this document does not reflect a working group consensus The PKIX group was already closed by the time the authors started work on this document. The document did receive some review on the PKIX and SAAG lists, including from implementers that said that it is aligned with their implementations. Document Quality This document describes existing practice implemented by multiple vendor products and open source projects, and harmonizes minor discrepancies among implementations. No major issues were raised in last call. Personnel Kathleen Moriarty is the responsible Area Directory. Yoav Nir is the document shepherd. RFC Editor Notes: The draft editors will need to check the examples in the final version (Auth48) as they may be invalid if there is indenting or other characters in the way. Additionally, the reference [X509SG] should be considered stable as it has been there for 15 years. The draft editors asked the author and the link is expected to be available indefinitely (his words were 'forever').
