Technical Summary
This spec extends the JMAP Mail Protocol (RFC8621) with a way to
obtain information about S/MIME signature verification status.
Working Group Summary
This document originally included both the verification and the
creation of S/MIME signatures, but was split into two documents
and this one is just the verification part.
The main discussion was around cached validation status and being
able to know if the server successfully validated the message in
the past once a key has expired.
There was also discussion about whether there was any point in
describing what specifically caused validation to fail, or just
a simple yes/no on validity.
This document was discussed in multiple IETF sessions, as well as
on the mailing list, and everybody was happy with the end result.
Document Quality
This spec is easy to implement for a server which already validates
S/MIME. It can either store information or always calculate in
real-time. It uses the standard JMAP extension mechanism to add
new data items to the existing Email object, so will be familiar
to anybody who has implemented JMAP.
Personnel
Document Shepherd - Bron Gondwana (EXTRA co-chair)
Responsible Area Director - Murray Kucherawy