X.509 Certificate Extended Key Usage (EKU) for Instant Messaging URIs
draft-ietf-lamps-im-keyusage-04

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'X.509 Certificate Extended Key Usage (EKU) for Instant Messaging URIs' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-lamps-im-keyusage-04.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'X.509 Certificate Extended Key Usage (EKU) for Instant Messaging URIs'
  (draft-ietf-lamps-im-keyusage-04.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX
and SMIME Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Paul Wouters and Deb Cooley.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-im-keyusage/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   RFC 5280 specifies several extended key purpose identifiers
   (KeyPurposeIds) for X.509 certificates.  This document defines
   Instant Messaging (IM) identity KeyPurposeId for inclusion in the
   Extended Key Usage (EKU) extension of X.509 v3 public key
   certificates

Working Group Summary

  There is support for this document in the LAMPS WG.  During the WG 
  Last Call no one spoke against the document, and some 
  expressed support.

Document Quality

  ASN.1 is used.  The document shepherd compiled the ASN.1 module
  after inserting placeholder values for the ones that need to be
  assigned by IANA.  It compiles without errors. 

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Russ Housley. The Responsible
   Area Director is Deb Cooley.

IANA Note

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RFC Editor Note