CBOR Object Signing and Encryption
charter-ietf-cose-03

Yes

(Kathleen Moriarty)
(Stephen Farrell)

No Objection

(Alia Atlas)
(Barry Leiba)
(Benoît Claise)
(Deborah Brungard)
(Jari Arkko)
(Spencer Dawkins)

Note: This ballot was opened for revision 00-02 and is now closed.

Ballot question: "Do we approve of this charter?"

Kathleen Moriarty Former IESG member
Yes
Yes (2015-05-28 for -00-02) Unknown 
Since this is the first charter I am putting through, I didn't realize I also had to add a ballot after putting this in external review.  If I need to defer this to the next call, that will have to be ok...  The working group is active on items anyway, so it shouldn't hold them up much.
Stephen Farrell Former IESG member
Yes
Yes (2015-05-28 for -00-02) Unknown 
I was initially sceptical that there were enough folks 
interested in CBOR to justify this but was convinced
that there are. 

That does sort-of create a precedent for us that anytime
someone comes along with a way of representing data
on the wire then we should be ok with a WG to define
the crypto for that so long as there's enough folks
interested. I'm fine with that, but that does follow from
saying yes here I think so I just wanted to call that
out to the IESG in case someone disagrees.
Alia Atlas Former IESG member
No Objection
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                            Barry Leiba Former IESG member
                        

                        

                            
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Phill is not wrong in his comments, and I have some sympathy for the path he would rather go down.

That said, there is clearly interest and need here, and the energy to do the work, and that would be so regardless of how we got here -- indeed, even if CBOR had just been an ad hoc representation format that people had started to use, that came completely from outside the IETF.

I think, therefore, that this working group should go ahead... and that the sort of thing that Phill suggests should also go ahead, if there is interest and energy to start a working group on it.

                            

                        
                    

                
            
                
                    

                        

                            Benoît Claise Former IESG member
                        

                        

                            
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                            Deborah Brungard Former IESG member
                        

                        

                            
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                            Jari Arkko Former IESG member
                        

                        

                            
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                            Spencer Dawkins Former IESG member
                        

                        

                            
                            No Objection
                            
                        

                    

                    

                        

                            

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