Subject: [COSE] Last Call: <draft-ietf-cose-msg-18.txt> (CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE)) to Proposed Standard

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:24:49 -0700

The IESG has received a request from the CBOR Object Signing and
Encryption WG (cose) to consider the following document:
- 'CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE)'
  <draft-ietf-cose-msg-18.txt> as Proposed Standard

The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
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Abstract

   Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is data format designed
   for small code size and small message size.  There is a need for the
   ability to have basic security services defined for this data format.
   This document defines the CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE)
   specification.  This specification describes how to create and
   process signature, message authentication codes and encryption using
   CBOR for serialization.  This specification additionally specifies
   how to represent cryptographic keys using CBOR.

The file can be obtained via
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-cose-msg/

IESG discussion can be tracked via
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-cose-msg/ballot/

No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.

The document contains these normative downward references.
See RFC 3967 for additional information: 
    rfc7539: ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for IETF Protocols (Informational - Independent Submission Editor stream)
    rfc3394: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Key Wrap Algorithm (Informational - IETF stream)
    rfc3610: Counter with CBC-MAC (CCM) (Informational - Independent Submission Editor stream)
    rfc5869: HMAC-based Extract-and-Expand Key Derivation Function (HKDF) (Informational - IETF stream)
    rfc6090: Fundamental Elliptic Curve Cryptography Algorithms (Informational - IETF stream)
    rfc2104: HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication (Informational - IETF stream)
Note that some of these references may already be listed in the acceptable Downref Registry.