Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pkix-scvp-09.txt

["Housley, Russ" <rhousley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

PKIX WG:

This is the same document that was made available via the RSA Labs FTP site 
prior to the meeting in Yokohama.  Since the repository is now accepting 
postings, I have simply posted the same document in the usual location.

Russ

> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
> directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) Working 
> Group of the IETF.
>
>         Title           : Simple Certificate Validation Protocol (SCVP)
>         Author(s)       : A. Malpani, R. Housley, T. Freeman
>         Filename        : draft-ietf-pkix-scvp-09.txt
>         Pages           : 31
>         Date            : 29-Jul-02
>
> The SCVP protocol allows a client to offload certificate handling to a
> server. The server can give a variety of valuable information about
> the certificate, such as whether or not the certificate is valid, a
> certification path to a trust anchor, and so on. SCVP has many
> purposes, including simplifying client implementations and allowing
> companies to centralize their trust and policy management.