Email Exchange of Secondary School Transcripts
RFC 7681
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RFC - Informational
(October 2015; No errata)
Was draft-davin-eesst (individual)
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| Author | James Davin | ||
| Last updated | 2015-10-23 | ||
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| Document shepherd | Adrian Farrel | ||
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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.
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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 to
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