Subject: Protocol Action: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols: FTP and HTTP to Proposed Standard

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 09:14:21 -0500

The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Internet X.509 Public Key
Infrastructure Operational Protocols: FTP and HTTP'
<draft-ietf-pkix-opp-ftp-http-04.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 proposes mechanisms for transporting X.509 Certificates
  and Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) via HTTP or FTP. For HTTP it
  defines two new MIME types (application/pkix-cert and
  application/pkix-crl) for tagging these data types.

Working Group Summary

  The working group reached consensus on this proposal

Protocol Quality

  Jeffrey I. Schiller reviewed this document for the IESG.