Draft Minutes of OpenPGP

[Derek Atkins <derek@xxxxxxxxx>]

Attached are the draft minutes for the OpenPGP meeting.  In short:

1) 2440bis should go to WGLC later this month
2) new milestones were proposed by the chair and no objections noted
3) there appears to be interest in adopting new work: the message-header

-derek

AGENDA --


-- Introduction and Agenda Bashing

         No changes 

-- 2440 bis status

        - In "pentultimate last call" for some time (over a year) - now only doing tweaks to the document.
        - If you want changes in wording - need to be compatable and suggest text.
        - Only open issue is David Shaw's BNF request for literal+literal.  No reason not to include David Shaw's request, but not in draft 14.  Should go into 15
        - Run last call and finish this document
        - Use difference documents for new work - downside is that not everything will be in a small number of documents.  Good news is that will have a fixed definitive document

--  2440 next steps
        - Go to Last call. finish by end of August
        - Try for a bake off? try for Draft Standard. (early in '06)
        - update milestones - proposal given.
        - Draft standard would be tried for 6 months after IESG approval.
        
        - New Life
        -       New documents not hit 2440bis.
        -       

-- Proposed Milestones

        - No Objections


--- Message Header

        - draft-josefsson-openpgp-mailnews-header-01.txt

        - standardize some X- headers for PGP.
        - Lookup URL and key id of a sender
        - simplified original by dropping some unnecessary data.
                - key id - longer fingerprint - url to key

        - What is the problem to be solved?
                - Not completely clear
                - invent header that could be used programatically to lookup key and keyid of sender
                - Manual cut & paste?
                - request for additinoal current usage of old headers for inclusion in the doument.

        - Open Issuses:
                - Add token to state strong preference for reciving PGP and potentially the PGP format to be sent.
                        - IETF process restricted to MIME?
                        - place same info into a packet?

                - Keyserver field?
                        - unsure of what this would be really for.  Next expansion of the idea.

                - BNF problems on the draft need corrections.

         Open MIKE
                JON - Supports idea of draft - supports "supports token"  - PGP has a similar item already used.  used with different values for different reading devices.

                        - Wants support to plain inline text - kill mime and only use plain text as a personal preference.

                - response - Need additional proposals to solve some of the problems?

                        JON - display problems not format issues - Don't ban text only w/o mime wrappers.
                        8-bit character set problems with servers - 
                        
                        Vigourous dispute on issues with character sets.

                        Thomas ? - two formats - with and w/o tag - please elimiate the tag version.
                        
                        ??? - Please add finger print header - used for validation.

                                - possible support already?

                        JON - KeyID is a trucated fingerprint - allow for longer id to get fuller fingerprint w/o much additional parsing.  

                                - -00 to -01 allowed for longer KeyID from a fixed length.

--- Open Discussion

        - Meeting closed.

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