Easy-to-Use Certificates BOF (easycert)

Thursday, November 11 at 1300-1500
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CHAIRS: Steven M. Bellovin <[email protected]>
       Russ Housley <[email protected]>

AGENDA:

Jeff Schiller, MIT (20 minutes)
Robert Stahl, Johnson & Johnson (20 minutes)
Open discussion
Summarize main charter points (20 minutes)

DESCRIPTION:

Public key technology -- certificates, the associated
private keys, PKIs, etc. -- are hard to use and hard to
deploy.  Some of that is merely perception, of course, but
some of it is reality.  The question for this BoF, and a
possible future working group is this:  what can the IETF
do to make life easier?  Some hardware technologies may
help, but of course the IETF doesn't develop such things.
On the other hand, if we think they're part of the solution,
some BCP we write can say so.

We assume that we're not missing any crucial over-the-wire
protocols -- though if we are, they'd be prime candidates
for IETF work.  Accordingly, an easycert working group
would be charged with writing a few BCPs and possibly
Informational RFCs.  So -- what are the titles of some such
RFCs?  If you're a service provider (for any sort of service
-- ISP, web site, ecommerce, etc.), what sort of advice
should the IETF give you?  The vendors you buy from?
Software developers?

The specific goal of the BoF is to figure out what the IETF
can do.  The desired outcome is a set of major charter
points, including the titles of some RFCs we'd produce.

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