Subject: Re: [Nea] RFC 6876 on A Posture Transport Protocol over TLS (PT-TLS)

From: Stephen Hanna <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 14:29:41 +0000

Congratulations to the nea working group on the
successful completion of this significant milestone!
Thanks to all those who have helped over the years.

Now we have a complete top-to-bottom set of IETF RFCs
for endpoint assessment, all approved as standards.
As noted in this blog post, Trusted Computing Group
has approved identical documents as TCG Specifications:

http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/community/2013/02/ietf_approves_tcg_networking_standards

I'm delighted to see everyone converging on one set
of standards for endpoint assessment. That was the
goal of the nea working group when it was chartered
and now we are almost done. We just have to get PT-EAP
to RFC status, which is expected by the end of 2013.
Even without having PT-EAP as an RFC, implementers
are starting to implement PT-TLS, PB-TNC, and PA-TNC
for endpoint assessment. Together, these standards
help establish the security and trustworthiness of
network endpoints. And since most attacks today focus
on compromising the endpoints, the NEA standards will
play an essential role in combating the threats of
the future.

With the NEA standards, infected machines can be
detected, quarantined, and remediated using open
standards.

Thanks,

Steve

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> Subject: [Nea] RFC 6876 on A Posture Transport Protocol over TLS (PT-
> TLS)
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> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
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> 
>         RFC 6876
> 
>         Title:      A Posture Transport Protocol over
>                     TLS (PT-TLS)
>         Author:     P. Sangster, N. Cam-Winget,
>                     J. Salowey
>         Status:     Standards Track
>         Stream:     IETF
>         Date:       February 2013
>         Mailbox:    [email-masked],
>                     [email-masked],
>                     [email-masked]
>         Pages:      44
>         Characters: 109852
>         Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
> 
>         I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-nea-pt-tls-08.txt
> 
>         URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6876.txt
> 
> This document specifies PT-TLS, a TLS-based Posture Transport (PT)
> protocol.  The PT-TLS protocol carries the Network Endpoint
> Assessment (NEA) message exchange under the protection of a
> Transport Layer Security (TLS) secured tunnel.
> 
> This document is a product of the Network Endpoint Assessment Working
> Group of the IETF.
> 
> This is now a Proposed Standard.
> 
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