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Gossiping in CT
draft-ietf-trans-gossip-05

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Date Rev. By Action
2020-02-25
05 (System) Document has expired
2020-02-24
05 Roman Danyliw See IETF 102 discussion -- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/minutes-102-trans/
2020-02-24
05 Roman Danyliw IESG state changed to Dead from AD Evaluation::AD Followup
2019-03-27
05 Cindy Morgan Shepherding AD changed to Roman Danyliw
2018-01-14
05 (System) Sub state has been changed to AD Followup from Revised ID Needed
2018-01-14
05 Linus Nordberg New version available: draft-ietf-trans-gossip-05.txt
2018-01-14
05 (System) New version approved
2018-01-14
05 (System) Request for posting confirmation emailed to previous authors: Tom Ritter , Linus Nordberg , Daniel Gillmor
2018-01-14
05 Linus Nordberg Uploaded new revision
2017-10-14
04 Eric Rescorla IESG state changed to AD Evaluation::Revised I-D Needed from AD Evaluation
2017-04-21
04 Eric Rescorla IESG state changed to AD Evaluation from Publication Requested
2017-03-29
04 Amy Vezza Shepherding AD changed to Eric Rescorla
2017-03-16
04 Melinda Shore
1) "Gossiping in CT" is intended for publication as an
Experimental Standard.  We opted for Experimental because we
suspect that there may be other approaches …
1) "Gossiping in CT" is intended for publication as an
Experimental Standard.  We opted for Experimental because we
suspect that there may be other approaches to gossiping CT
data structures that will work as well, and we need more
experience with this gossip protocol to develop confidence
in it.

2) Document announcement:

Technical summary

  The logs in Certificate Transparency are untrusted in the sense that
  the users of the system don't have to trust that they behave
  correctly since the behavior of a log can be verified to be correct.

  This document tries to solve the problem with logs presenting a
  "split view" of their operations.  It describes three gossiping
  mechanisms for Certificate Transparency: SCT Feedback, STH
  Pollination and Trusted Auditor Relationship.

Working group summary

  The only concern expressed during last call on this
  document was that while there was no substantive
  disagreement with the contents of this document, there
  was also not much interest expressed.  However, there are
  several implementations underway, and there was consensus
  that under the circumstances it is appropriate to
  progress the document towards publication as an
  experimental standard.

Document quality

  There are several implementations in progress.  We have
  not heard of vendor plans to deploy the protocol.  Again,
  this is why we chose to request publication as an
  experimental standard.

Personnel

  Document shepherd: Melinda Shore
  Responsible AD: Stephen Farrell

3) The document shepherd is also the working group co-chair
and has been reviewing the document since before adoption as
a working group deliverable.  This version is mature and
stable, and is ready for publication.

4) No concerns.

5) No portion of the document needs cross-area or
outside review.

6) The IETF has traditionally avoided taking on work on what
are essentially distributed computing problems, such as
gossip protocols.  homenet published a consensus protocol
recently (RFC 7787) but it is still somewhat unusual.  Also,
it has just recently been brought to attention that trans
documents do not conform to the recommendations regarding
URI structure described in BCP 190.

7) Yes, each author has confirmed that any IPR disclosures
(would) have been filed.

8) There are no IPR disclosures associated with this
document.

9) There is no technical disagreement with the content of
this document.  The only concern expressed by working group
participants is that there is not universal enthusiasm for
it, although there is consensus that it is appropriate to
publish it as an experimental standard.

10) There are no threats of appeal.

11) There is a missing reference to RFC 2110, and there are
some "weird spaces" in some of the diagrams.  The nits
checker incorrectly interprets some message numbers in
diagrams as references.  There are 39 too-long lines, and 4
instances of non-RFC2606-compliant FQDNs.  These will be
corrected prior to publication.

12) This document does not require MIB doctor, URI type, or
media type reviews.

13) All references have been identified as normative or
informative.

14) There is a normative reference to a document which has
not been published (rfc6962-bis).  That document is the core
working group deliverable and is close to completing working
group last call.

15) There are no normative downward references.

16) This document will not change the publication status of
any existing RFCs.

17) There are no IANA considerations.  The "IANA
Considerations" section has been [TBD]-ed in.

18) There are no new IANA registries.

19) The pseudocode has been given a manual review by the
document shepherd.  The JSON framework given in the document
is not quite correct, as the strings are demarked by single
quotes rather than double.  This will be corrected prior to
publication.
2017-03-16
04 Melinda Shore Responsible AD changed to Stephen Farrell
2017-03-16
04 Melinda Shore IETF WG state changed to Submitted to IESG for Publication from WG Consensus: Waiting for Write-Up
2017-03-16
04 Melinda Shore IESG state changed to Publication Requested
2017-03-16
04 Melinda Shore IESG process started in state Publication Requested
2017-03-16
04 Melinda Shore Intended Status changed to Experimental from None
2017-03-16
04 Melinda Shore Tag Doc Shepherd Follow-up Underway cleared.
2017-03-16
04 Melinda Shore Changed document writeup
2017-02-02
04 Melinda Shore Tag Doc Shepherd Follow-up Underway set.
2017-02-02
04 Melinda Shore IETF WG state changed to WG Consensus: Waiting for Write-Up from In WG Last Call
2017-01-11
04 Melinda Shore Notification list changed to "Melinda Shore" <melinda.shore@gmail.com>
2017-01-11
04 Melinda Shore Document shepherd changed to Melinda Shore
2017-01-11
04 Melinda Shore IETF WG state changed to In WG Last Call from WG Document
2017-01-10
04 Linus Nordberg New version available: draft-ietf-trans-gossip-04.txt
2017-01-10
04 (System) New version approved
2017-01-10
04 (System) Request for posting confirmation emailed to previous authors: trans-chairs@ietf.org, "Linus Nordberg" , "Daniel Gillmor" , "Tom Ritter"
2017-01-10
04 Linus Nordberg Uploaded new revision
2017-01-09
03 (System) Document has expired
2016-07-08
03 Linus Nordberg New version available: draft-ietf-trans-gossip-03.txt
2016-03-21
02 Linus Nordberg New version available: draft-ietf-trans-gossip-02.txt
2015-10-19
01 Linus Nordberg New version available: draft-ietf-trans-gossip-01.txt
2015-08-28
00 Paul Wouters This document now replaces draft-linus-trans-gossip-ct instead of None
2015-08-28
00 Linus Nordberg New version available: draft-ietf-trans-gossip-00.txt