I’d have to agree with Simon here. manning bmanning@xxxxxxxxxxx PO Box 6151 Playa del Rey, CA 90296 310.322.8102 On 10September2015Thursday, at 10:35, Simon Josefsson <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I believe it would be a mistake to publish this document without having > it include a discussion of its relationship to RFC 4648. As far as I > can tell, the CERT record defined in RFC 4648 solves roughly the same > problem as OPENPGPKEY and CERT is already deployed with support in (for > example) GnuPG. I believe the community would benefit from sorting out > the relationship before publication, not after, when we would have two > RFCs describing solutions for what appears to be the same problem. > > /Simon > > The IESG <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> The IESG has received a request from the DNS-based Authentication of >> Named Entities WG (dane) to consider the following document: >> - 'Using DANE to Associate OpenPGP public keys with email addresses' >> <draft-ietf-dane-openpgpkey-05.txt> as Proposed Standard >> >> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits >> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the >> ietf@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2015-09-11. Exceptionally, comments may be >> sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please retain the >> beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. >> >> Abstract >> >> >> OpenPGP is a message format for email (and file) encryption that >> lacks a standardized lookup mechanism to securely obtain OpenPGP >> public keys. This document specifies a method for publishing and >> locating OpenPGP public keys in DNS for a specific email address >> using a new OPENPGPKEY DNS Resource Record. Security is provided via >> DNSSEC. >> >> >> >> >> The file can be obtained via >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dane-openpgpkey/ >> >> IESG discussion can be tracked via >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dane-openpgpkey/ballot/ >> >> >> No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. >> >> >>