[dss] draft-rundgren-pkix-pnppki4ws-00.txt

Title: draft-rundgren-pkix-pnppki4ws-00.txt

A new Internet-Draft is now available that I thought may be of some interest to this group.  The announcement is included below, but it describes a new extension for X.509 certificates that is meant to allow them to better support Web services by, among other things, explicitly supporting globally unique identities.  

Anders Rundgren, the author of the draft, asked me to forward this to the DSS TC in order to obtain the group's opinions.  I've also attached the latest revision of the draft, as well as a PowerPoint presentation describing its features.

        Robert.

 <<draft-rundgren-pkix-pnppki4ws-00.pdf>>  <<PnPPKI4WS.ppt>> 

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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.

        Title           : Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure

                          Plug-and-Play PKI for Web Services

        Author(s)       : A. Rundgren

        Filename        : draft-rundgren-pkix-pnppki4ws-00.txt

        Pages           : 22

        Date            : 2003-1-13

        

'Web Services' [2, 3] is the collective name of a set of emerging

technologies targeted for ultimately supporting Plug-and-Play (PnP)

integration of business- and information-systems, within and between

organizations.  This specification covers an X.509 certificate

extension, designed to enable PnP-support for the Public Key

Infrastructure (PKI) part of a Web Service.  In addition to

supporting Web Services, the extension is also intended to be

useable for general-purpose PKI-enabled applications.  A PowerPoint

presentation highlighting the core of this specification is also

available [4]

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<ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-rundgren-pkix-pnppki4ws-00.txt> <ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-rundgren-pkix-pnppki4ws-00.txt>

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