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FW: Protocol Action: OpenPGP Message Format to Proposed Standard
> From: The IESG[SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 1998 10:27 AM
> Cc: RFC Editor; Internet Architecture Board; [email protected]
> Subject: Protocol Action: OpenPGP Message Format to Proposed Standard
>
>
>
> The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'OpenPGP Message Format'
> <draft-ietf-openpgp-formats-08.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This
> document is the product of the An Open Specification for Pretty Good
> Privacy Working Group.
>
> The IESG contact persons are Jeffrey Schiller and Marcus Leech.
>
>
>
> Technical Summary
>
> This document defines the formats used by "Phil's Pretty Good
> Privacy" otherwise known as PGP.
>
> Working Group Summary
>
> After serious discussion the working group came to consensus on this
> document.
>
> Protocol Quality
>
> The formats used here are the result of a second generation
> engineering effort to define an efficient, one pass format for
> representing information encrypted or signed with PGP. They were
> reviewed by Jeffrey I. Schiller for the IESG.
>
>
> Note to RFC Editor: Please add the following as an IESG Note:
>
> This document defines many tag values, yet it doesn't describe a
> mechanism for adding new tags (for new features). Traditionally the
> Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) handles the allocation of
> new values for future expansion and RFCs usually define the procedure
> to be used by the IANA. However there are subtle (and not so subtle)
> interactions that may occur in this protocol between new features and
> existing features which result in a significant reduction in over all
> security. Therefore this document does not define an extension
> procedure. Instead requests to define new tag values (say for new
> encryption algorithms for example) should be forwarded to the IESG
> Security Area Directors for consideration or forwarding to the
> appropriate IETF Working Group for consideration.
>
>
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Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics
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