Subject: Re: REVISED Last Call: draft-turner-asymmetrickeyformat (Asymmetric Key Packages) to Proposed Standard

From: Cullen Jennings <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:36:03 -0700

I was just looking at this draft and thinking about the IANA registration for the  application/pkcs8 media type. Right now that registration is in draft-ietf-sip-certs draft which this draft references. When you think about it for a minute, it make no sense to define that mime type in a SIP draft. It really should be in this draft-turner-asymmetrickeyformat  draft. I only got put in the sip-certs draft because it was not defined anywhere else when the sip-certs text was written. 

I'm think we should move the media registration from sip-certs to this draft and drop the reference. This put it in the right place, will make it easier for others to find it, and will avoid any weird circular dependencies or strangeness as things move up the standards ladder.

Specifically I think we should remove the reference to RFCTBD3 and move the following text from sip-certs into draft-turner-asymmetrickeyformat  so that section 7 becomes

7.  IANA Considerations

   This specification defines a new mime type that IANA is requested to add to the
   registry at:
      http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application

   To: [email-masked]
   Subject: Registration of MIME media type application/pkcs8

   MIME media type name: application

   MIME subtype name: pkcs8

   Required parameters: None

   Optional parameters: None

   Encoding considerations: binary

   Security considerations: Carries a cryptographic private key

   Interoperability considerations:
        The PKCS#8 object inside this MIME type MUST be DER-encoded

   Published specification:
        Kaliski, B., "Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #8:
        Private-Key Information Syntax Specification Version 1.2",
        RFC 5208, May 2008.

   Applications which use this media type: Any MIME-compliant transport

   Additional information:
     Magic number(s): None
     File extension(s): .p8
     Macintosh File Type Code(s): none

   Person & email address to contact for further information:
      Sean Turner <[email-masked]>

   Intended usage: COMMON

   Author/Change controller:
     the IESG

Sound reasonable to you?

Cullen <with my co-author of draft-ietf-sip-cert hat on>

On Mar 4, 2010, at 3:14 PM, The IESG wrote:

> The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider 
> the following document:
> 
> - 'Asymmetric Key Packages '
>   <draft-turner-asymmetrickeyformat-03.txt> as a Proposed Standard
> 
> This is a revised Last Call; the original Last Call failed to highlight
> a normative down reference to 
> 
> The draft includes a normative reference to:  
> * "New ASN.1 Modules for CMS and S/MIME",  
> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-smime-new-asn1-07.txt  
> which is currently in the RFC Editor Queue for publication as an 
> Informational RFC. 
> 
> The IESG would like to determine whether the community believes this  
> document is an appropriate reference for a standards track document  
> in spite of the lower maturity level.  
> 
> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
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> 
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