Commercial Internet Protocol Security Option (cipso)
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Charter
Last Modified: 1995-03-07

Current Status: Concluded Working Group

Chair(s):
    Ron Sharp  <[email protected]>

Security Area Director(s):
    Jeffrey Schiller  <[email protected]>
    Steve Bellovin  <[email protected]>

Security Area Advisor:
    Jeffrey Schiller  <[email protected]>

Mailing Lists:
    General Discussion:[email protected]
    To Subscribe:      [email protected]
    Archive:           [email protected]

Description of Working Group:

The Commercial Internet Protocol Security Option 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 US Department of Defense.  CIPSO will be designed to provide labeling for
the commercial, US civilian and non-US 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:

  MAR 91       Review outstanding comments/issues from mailing list.
               Continue the process to advance the Draft Standard to a
               Standard.

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

  MAR 92       Submit specification to the IESG for consideration as a
               Draft Standard. There must be at least two interoperable
               implementations by this time.


Internet-Drafts:

 No Current Internet-Drafts.

Request For Comments:

 None to date.