Subject: RE: SMIME Capabilities in X.509 Certificates

From: "Stefan Santesson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:14:56 +0100

Yes,

You have summarized this well.

This work will not impact any S/MIME message profiles, but we may
consider addressing this new extension in the Certificate Handling
document (or future version of it).

/Stefan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blake Ramsdell [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: den 17 juni 2004 21:24
> To: Stefan Santesson; 'smime mailing list'
> Cc: 'smime chair'; 'smime chair'
> Subject: RE: SMIME Capabilities in X.509 Certificates
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email-masked]
> > [mailto:[email-masked]] On Behalf Of Stefan Santesson
> > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 7:24 PM
> > To: smime mailing list
> > Cc: smime chair; smime chair
> > Subject: SMIME Capabilities in X.509 Certificates
> >
> > It would thus improve the situation if CAs, especially enterprise
CAs,
> > that knows or even have the capability to dictate the capabilities
of
> > users, could include the PKCS#9 SMIMECapabilities attribute in
> > certificates.
> 
> OK, so as far as I can tell, what's being asked is as follows:
> 
> * Modification of the ietf-smime charter to allow for the discussion
of
> a profile of the SMIME Capabilities extension to be included in X.509
> certificates
> 
> * The actual discussion of such a thing on the ietf-smime mailing list
> 
> * Creation of one or more drafts to summarize the consensus,
ultimately
> resulting in one or more RFCs in the S/MIME working group
> 
> This all sounds like stuff we can do. If there's something I'm
missing,
> someone point it out, otherwise it seems reasonable to undertake this
> work in the working group.
> 
> One other thing we should probably discuss is whether or not this
effort
> has any impact on S/MIME message processing, and if we need to address
> that.
> 
> Blake