Evaluation: draft-ietf-sacred-protocol-bss - Securely Available Credentials Protocol

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Last Call to expire on: 2003-08-26

        Please return the full line with your position.

                      Yes  No-Objection  Discuss  Abstain
Harald Alvestrand    [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Steve Bellovin       [ X ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Randy Bush           [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Bill Fenner          [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Ned Freed            [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Ted Hardie           [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Russ Housley         [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Allison Mankin       [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Thomas Narten        [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Jon Peterson         [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Margaret Wasserman   [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Bert Wijnen          [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Alex Zinin           [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]

2/3 (9) Yes or No-Objection opinions needed to pass.

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Securely Available Credentials 
         Protocol' to Proposed Standard 

The IESG has approved following documents:

- 'Securely Available Credentials Protocol'
   <draft-ietf-sacred-protocol-bss-08.txt> as a Proposed Standard
- 'Securely Available Credentials - Credential Server Framework'
   <draft-ietf-sacred-framework-06.txt> as an Informational RFC

These documents are products of the Securely Available Credentials Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Steve Bellovin and Russ Housley.

Technical Summary

Certificates and other cryptographic credentials are ungainly things, not suitable to human memorization.  While smart cards and the like are one possible solution, they're not widely deployed or used for general-purpose computing.  The SACRED protocol permits remote storage and retrieval of such credentials.

Working Group Summary

There was working group consensus on this document.

Protocol Quality

This protocol was reviewed for the IESG by Steve Bellovin