Re: Proposed update to smime charted

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

Thanks!

--On torsdag, mars 06, 2003 15:08:09 -0500 Russ Housley 
<housley@vigilsec.com> wrote:

> I would like to clean up the charter of the S/MIME WG before passing the
> working group off to a new chair.  Attached is my proposed update.
> Please let me know if you have any concerns with this proposal.
Some nits:

what are RSA PSS and RSA KEM?
They are mentioned in the milestones, but I couldn't see anything that I 
recognized as a reference to them in the body of the charter. It's possible 
that it is in the first "algorithm" paragraph - is there value in saying 
anything about the specific list you intend to address, or in saying a few 
words about how the group will evaluate whether or not to pursue an 
algorithm?
Multiple algorithms generally harm interoperability, so there needs to be 
some justification for adding more of them.....

Language; there are a few sections that start off rather suddenly - I have 
a little trouble parsing

> S/MIME version 3 and later, CMS is used to provide security to the
> message content if an Internet mail message.
I suspect it's just missing a leading "In".

Similarly

> Perform necessary interoperability testing to progress the S/MIME
> specifications to Draft Standard.
I think this means "The working group members will..."

intro to IESG formalism.... when you send this to iesg@ietf.org, the 
secretariat will assume that this is just for information and asking for 
feedback from the IESG, and the secretariat doesn't have to do anything.

When you want official action, you send a mail (with the charter in it) to 
iesg-secretary@ietf.org, asking them to send out the WG REVIEW message 
(which will go to the IESG, the IAB and the WG chairs).

You'll work it out eventually :-)

                Harald