Email Exchange of Secondary School Transcripts
RFC 7681
Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(October 2015; No errata)
Was draft-davin-eesst (individual)
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Author | James Davin | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-23 | ||
Stream | ISE | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
IETF conflict review | conflict-review-davin-eesst | ||
Stream | ISE state | Published RFC | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
Document shepherd | Adrian Farrel | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2015-06-30) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 7681 (Informational) | |
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Responsible AD | (None) | ||
Send notices to | (None) | ||
IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack |
Independent Submission J. Davin Request for Comments: 7681 October 2015 Category: Informational ISSN: 2070-1721 Email Exchange of Secondary School Transcripts Abstract A common format simplifies exchange of secondary school academic transcripts via electronic mail. Existing standards are applied to prevent unauthorized alteration of transcript content and to deliver transcripts directly and securely from each student to his or her chosen recipients. By eliminating third-party intervention and surveillance, the defined protocol better protects student privacy and independence than does current practice. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This is a contribution to the RFC Series, independently of any other RFC stream. The RFC Editor has chosen to publish this document at its discretion and makes no statement about its value for implementation or deployment. Documents approved for publication by the RFC Editor are not a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7681. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2015 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Davin Informational [Page 1] RFC 7681 EESST Protocol Specification October 2015 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Design Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3. Protocol Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.1. Student and Originator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.1.1. Transcript Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.2. Student and Recipient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4. Transcript Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.1. School Transcript Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.2. Computational School Transcript . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.3. Display School Transcript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5. Signed School Transcript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 6. Transcript Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 6.1. Encrypted Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 6.2. Encrypted and Signed Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 6.3. Encrypted File Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 6.4. Traditional Inline Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 7.1. Originator Private Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 7.2. Originator Public Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 7.3. Originator Certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 7.4. Recipient Public Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 7.5. Secure Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 7.6. Automatic Replies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 8.1. Registration of Eesst-Version Header . . . . . . . . . . 37 8.2. Registration of Organization Header . . . . . . . . . . . 37 9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 1. Introduction Traditional, paper-based communication of individual student records protects the rights and interests of all stakeholders -- the secondary school officials who curate student records, the students who are both the subjects and distributors of their own individual records, and the college admission officers, prospective employers, and others who, with the permission of individual students, receive and review such records. In the traditional process, when a graduating student applies for employment or admission to an institution of higher learning, she asks the guidance counselor at her secondary school for a transcript of her academic achievements toShow full document text