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ABOUT THE IETF-TLS WORKING GROUP
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Transport Layer Security (TLS) Charter
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Chair:

    Win Treese <mailto:treese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Editors:

    Tim Dierks <mailto:TimD@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Christopher Allen <mailto:ChristopherA@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Security Area Director:

    Jeffrey Schiller <mailto:jis@xxxxxxx>

Transport Area Director:

    Allison Mankin <mailto:mankin@xxxxxxx>

Description of the IETF-TLS Working Group
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Several methods of providing a secure and authenticated channel
between hosts on the Internet above the transport layer have
appeared. The objective of this proposed working group is to write
standards track RFC(s) for protocols using the currently available
Internet drafts as a basis. The SSL, PCT and SSH protocols are
examples of mechanisms of establishing a secure channel for general
purpose or special purpose Internet applications running over a
reliable transport, usually TCP.

The IETF-TLS Working Group is a focused effort on providing security
features at the transport layer, rather than general purpose
security and key management mechanisms. The standard track protocol
specification will provide methods for implementing privacy,
authentication, and integrity above the transport layer.

The work currently under way in the area of secure IP is outside the
scope of this working group. Also, general authentication mechanism
discussions are outside the focus of this group. However, best
efforts will be made to utilize as much as possible of the already
existing technologies and methodologies in the IETF and other places
to solve common problems, such as key management.

The group may also produce an informational RFC to describe
conventions for the interface to a Socket (or transport) layer
secure library to build specific applications as well as TCP port
number conventions for running secure versions of network
applications.

Note: This working group is jointly chartered by the IETF Security
and IETF Transport Area.

Goals and Milestones for the IETF-TLS Working Group
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February '97
    Draft with proposed modifications to list

March '97
    Conclusion of comments/discussion
    Changes incorporated, submit draft to IESG

April '97
    Working group "Last Call" Memphis IETF-TLS Meeting
        (April 7th - 11th)
    New Business (after IETF-TLS Meeting)

IETF-TLS Working Group Web Pages and Lists
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IETF-TLS General Discussion
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IETF-TLS Working Group lists *IF* such discussion might
affect any document being authored by the working group
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implementors or to ask that a protocol spec include
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