Commercial Internet Protocol Security Option (cipso)

Charter

Chair(s):
     Ron Sharp, rls@neptune.att.com

Mailing Lists:
     General Discussion:  cipso@wdl1.wdl.loral.com
     To Subscribe:  cipso-request@wdl1.wdl.loral.com
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Description of Working Group:

     The Commercial Internet Protocol Security Option (CIPSO)
     Working Group is chartered to define an IP security option that
     can be used to pass security information within and between
     security domains.  This new security option will be modular in
     design to provide developers with a single software environment
     which can support multiple security domains.

     The CIPSO protocol will support a large number of security
     domains.  New security domains will be registered with the
     Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and will be
     available with minimal difficulty to all parties.

     There is currently in progress another IP security option
     referred to as IPSO (RFC 1108).  IPSO is designed to support
     the security labels used by the U.S. Dept of Defense.  CIPSO
     will be designed to provide labeling for the commercial, U.S.
     civilian and non-U.S. communities.

     The Trusted Systems Interoperability Group (TSIG) has developed
     a document which defines a structure for the proposed CIPSO
     option.  The Working Group will use this document as a
     foundation for developing an IETF CIPSO specification.

Goals and Milestones:

Done       Review and approve the Charter for the IETF CIPSO Working
           Group.  Review revised TSIG CIPSO Specification.

Done       Review outstanding comments/issues from mailing list.
           Continue work on specification and prepare it for submission
           as an Internet Draft by the end of May.

Jul 1991   Review outstanding comments/issues from mailing list.  The
           specification will be submitted to the IESG for consideration
           as a Proposed Standard.

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Mar 1992   Submit specification to the IESG for consideration as a Draft
           Standard.  There must be at least two interoperable
           implementations by this time.

Ongoing    Review outstanding comments/issues from mailing list.
           Continue the process to advance the Draft Standard to a
           Standard.



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