Subject: Protocol Action: X.509 Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP to Proposed Standard

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 11:36:03 -0500

The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'X.509 Internet Public Key
Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP'
<draft-ietf-pkix-ocsp-07.txt> as a Proposed Standard.  This document is
the product of the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) Working Group.
The IESG contact persons are Jeffrey Schiller and Marcus Leech.

Technical Summary
 
 This document defines an on-line protocol for verifying the validity
  of X.509 Certificates by contacting the issuing Certifying Authority
  (or their authorized designee). It provides an alternative to the
  more traditional approach of having Certifying Authority publish
  Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs).

Working Group Summary

  The working group reached consensus on this proposal

Protocol Quality

  Jeffrey I. Schiller reviewed this document for the IESG.