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draft-ietf-lamps-x509-shbs

# Shepherd Write-up for draft-ietf-lamps-x509-shbs-08

## Document History

1. Does the working group (WG) consensus represent the strong concurrence of a
   few individuals, with others being silent, or did it reach broad agreement?

   There is support in the LAMPS WG for this document.  All comments that
   were raised during WG Last Call wre resolved.

2. Was there controversy about particular points, or were there decisions where
   the consensus was particularly rough?

   There was little controversy, and suggested improvements were readily
   accepted by the authors.

3. Has anyone threatened an appeal or otherwise indicated extreme discontent? If
   so, please summarize the areas of conflict in separate email messages to the
   responsible Area Director. (It should be in a separate email because this
   questionnaire is publicly available.)

   No one has threatened an appeal.

4. For protocol documents, are there existing implementations of the contents of
   the document? Have a significant number of potential implementers indicated
   plans to implement? Are any existing implementations reported somewhere,
   either in the document itself (as [RFC 7942][3] recommends) or elsewhere
   (where)?

   Some code written has been written.  The examples in Appendix A were
   generated using that code.

## Additional Reviews

5. Do the contents of this document closely interact with technologies in other
   IETF working groups or external organizations, and would it therefore benefit
   from their review? Have those reviews occurred? If yes, describe which
   reviews took place.

   No concerns about interaction with other technologies.

6. Describe how the document meets any required formal expert review criteria,
   such as the MIB Doctor, YANG Doctor, media type, and URI type reviews.

   No special reviews are needed.

7. If the document contains a YANG module, has the final version of the module
   been checked with any of the [recommended validation tools][4] for syntax and
   formatting validation? If there are any resulting errors or warnings, what is
   the justification for not fixing them at this time? Does the YANG module
   comply with the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA) as specified
   in [RFC 8342][5]?

   This document does not include a YANG module.

8. Describe reviews and automated checks performed to validate sections of the
   final version of the document written in a formal language, such as XML code,
   BNF rules, MIB definitions, CBOR's CDDL, etc.

   The ASN.1 module compiles without errors.

## Document Shepherd Checks

9. Based on the shepherd's review of the document, is it their opinion that this
   document is needed, clearly written, complete, correctly designed, and ready
   to be handed off to the responsible Area Director?

   Yes.

10. Several IETF Areas have assembled [lists of common issues that their
    reviewers encounter][6]. For which areas have such issues been identified
    and addressed? For which does this still need to happen in subsequent
    reviews?

    No concerns were noticed.

11. What type of RFC publication is being requested on the IETF stream ([Best
    Current Practice][12], [Proposed Standard, Internet Standard][13],
    [Informational, Experimental or Historic][14])? Why is this the proper type
    of RFC? Do all Datatracker state attributes correctly reflect this intent?

    As reflected in the Datatracker: Proposed Standard on the IETF Stream.

12. Have reasonable efforts been made to remind all authors of the intellectual
    property rights (IPR) disclosure obligations described in [BCP 79][7]? To
    the best of your knowledge, have all required disclosures been filed? If
    not, explain why. If yes, summarize any relevant discussion, including links
    to publicly-available messages when applicable.

    The authors have explicitly stated that he is unaware of any IPR
    that needs to be declared.

13. Has each author, editor, and contributor shown their willingness to be
    listed as such? If the total number of authors and editors on the front
    page is greater than five, please provide a justification.

    Yes.

14. Document any remaining I-D nits in this document. Simply running the [idnits
    tool][8] is not enough; please review the ["Content Guidelines" on
    authors.ietf.org][15]. (Also note that the current idnits tool generates
    some incorrect warnings; a rewrite is underway.)

    IDnits offers a complaint about non-ASCII characters, but they are due
    to names in references and a non-ASCII hyphen in the title of a
    reference.

    IDnits offers a complaint about long lines.  These will be resolved when
    "{{I-D.draft-ietf-lamps-rfc8708bis}}" is replaced with an RFC number.
    That Internet-Draft is already in the RFC Editor queue.
    
15. Should any informative references be normative or vice-versa? See the [IESG
    Statement on Normative and Informative References][16].

    No concerns.

16. List any normative references that are not freely available to anyone. Did
    the community have sufficient access to review any such normative
    references?

    All normative references are freely available.

17. Are there any normative downward references (see [RFC 3967][9] and
    [BCP 97][10]) that are not already listed in the [DOWNREF registry][17]?
    If so, list them.

    The IETF Last Call for this document will need to call out RFC 8391 as a
    downref.

    This document has a normative reference to RFC 5911, which is
    already in the downref registry.
    
    This document specified the conventions for using the HSS/LMS, XMSS, and
    XMSS^MT signature algorithms in X.509 certificates.  HSS/LMS is specified
    in RFC 8554, which is already in the downref registry.  XMSS and XMSS^MT
    are specified in RFC 8391, which is not yet in the downref registry.

18. Are there normative references to documents that are not ready to be
    submitted to the IESG for publication or are otherwise in an unclear state?
    If so, what is the plan for their completion?

    All normative references are published RFCs, an Internet-Draft that is
    already in the RFC Editor queue, and a NIST publication that is publicly
    available.

19. Will publication of this document change the status of any existing RFCs? If
    so, does the Datatracker metadata correctly reflect this and are those RFCs
    listed on the title page, in the abstract, and discussed in the
    introduction? If not, explain why and point to the part of the document
    where the relationship of this document to these other RFCs is discussed.

    No, this document will not change the status of any other document.

20. Describe the document shepherd's review of the IANA considerations section,
    especially with regard to its consistency with the body of the document.
    Confirm that all aspects of the document requiring IANA assignments are
    associated with the appropriate reservations in IANA registries. Confirm
    that any referenced IANA registries have been clearly identified. Confirm
    that each newly created IANA registry specifies its initial contents,
    allocations procedures, and a reasonable name (see [RFC 8126][11]).

    This document calls for the allocation of one object identifier for the
    ASN.1 module in Appendix A.  In addition, two early assignments have been
    made in the "SMI Security for PKIX Algorithms" (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.6) registry
    for the XMSS and XMSS^MT signature algorithms; these entries will be
    updated to point to the RFC when this document is finally published.

21. List any new IANA registries that require Designated Expert Review for
    future allocations. Are the instructions to the Designated Expert clear?
    Please include suggestions of designated experts, if appropriate.

    All three of the object identifier assignments discussed in item 20
    require Designated Expert approval.  Designated Expert was already
    obtained for the early assignment of the algorithm identifiers.  The
    ASN.1 module identifier is not controversial.
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