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Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure -- Certificate Management Protocol (CMP)
draft-ietf-lamps-rfc4210bis-18

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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, debcooley1@gmail.com, draft-ietf-lamps-rfc4210bis@ietf.org, housley@vigilsec.com, lamps-chairs@ietf.org, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org, spasm@ietf.org
Subject: Protocol Action: 'Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure -- Certificate Management Protocol (CMP)' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-lamps-rfc4210bis-18.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure -- Certificate Management
   Protocol (CMP)'
  (draft-ietf-lamps-rfc4210bis-18.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-rfc4210bis/


Ballot Text

Technical Summary

    This document describes the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
    (PKI) Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) version 3.  This document
    includes the updates to CMP that are specified by RFC 9480, and
    support for key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) algorithms is provided.
    This document will obsolete RFC 4210 and RFC 9480.

Working Group Summary

  When RFC 9480 was approved by the IESG, the LAMPS WG was asked to make
  a bis document instead of a complicated update document.

  There was broad consensus in the working group for this work.  

Document Quality

    Vendors with CMP implementations have indicated that they intend to
    support the updated syntax, and at least one open source effort is
    underway.  

Personnel

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

RFC Editor Note