Re: Status of RFC2440

[Werner Koch <wk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:53:26 +0100, Ian Grigg said:

> What is the status of the OpenPGP draft?

IIRC, the latest draft has expired and is thus not anymore available
from the usual places.

> it occurred to me that one of the barriers
> is that OpenPGP is not a standard, whereas
> x.509 is.

I just checked the rfc-index and both, OpenPGP (rfc2440) and X.509
PKIX profile (rfc3280), are in PROPOSED STANDARD status.  You don't
want to call plain ISO X.509 a practically useful standard without
specifying a profile.

We talked about moving to DRAFT status since mid 1999 with no result
though. Derek, any new plans on moving forward?


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner