Subject: WG Action: Kerberized Internet Negotiation of Keys (kink)

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 07:05:32 -0400

A new working group has been formed in the Security Area of the IETF.
For additional information, contact the Area Directors
or the WG Chair.

Kerberized Internet Negotiation of Keys (kink)
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 Current Status: Active Working Group
 
 Chair(s):
     Derek Atkins <[email-masked]>
 
 Security Area Director(s): 
     Jeffrey Schiller  <[email-masked]>
     Marcus Leech  <[email-masked]>
 
 Security Area Advisor: 
     Marcus Leech  <[email-masked]>
 
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     Archive:           www.vpnc.org/ietf-kink/

Description of Working Group:
 
The KINK working group is chartered to create a standards track
protocol to facilitate centralized key management for IPsec security
associations as defined in RFC 2401, as an alternative to IKE (RFC 
2409).  Participating systems will use the Kerberos architecture as
defined in RFC 1510 (and its successors) for key management. The goal
of the working group is to produce a streamlined, fast, easily
managed, and cryptographically sound protocol that does not require 
public key operations, and is compatible with existing and future 
Kerberos infrastructures.

The working group will not require changes to either IPsec (RFC 2401), 
or Kerberos (RFC 1510).
 
 Goals and Milestones: 
 
   Sep 00       Reach Consensus on requirements document                       

   Dec 00       Meet at San Diego IETF to review drafts                        

   Jan 01       Reach Consensus on base draft protocol                         

   Feb 01       Conduct WG last call on base draft prototol                    

   Mar 01       Begin Interoperability bakeoffs                                

   Aug 01       Document interoperability results. Make decision to recycle or 
                move forward