Kyle,
Which working group document is the proposal below referring to? The only
document currently under consideration by the IESG is the AS2 document, and
I can't find any mention of a CEMRequest element in that document.
-Scott-
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kyle Meadors [mailto:kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:07 PM
> To: ietf-ediint@xxxxxxx
> Subject: changes to CEM message structure
>
>
>
> Per the CEM draft review by the IETF area directors, the
> draft editors were
> informed the need to modify the format of the digital certificate
> distribution to the PKCS#7 SMIME certs-only media type since
> this is a well
> established standard.
>
> Based on this, the draft editors would like to modify the CEM message
> structure to something like this:
>
> Content-Type: Multpart/related; type="ediint-cert-exchange+xml";
> boundary=foo
> --foo
> Content-Type: Ediint-cert-exchange+xml
> [CEMRequest XML]
> --foo
> Content-Type: Application/pkcs7-mime; smime-type=certs-only
> Content-ID: <end-entity123@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [end-entity cert being exchanged]
> --foo
> Content-Type: Application/pkcs7-mime; smime-type=certs-only
> Content-ID: <ca-cert123@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [CA cert to complete the trust chain on the end-entity]
> --foo--
>
> The CEMRequest XML would be modified. The <ds:X509Data>
> element would be
> replaced with a new element, say <Content-Id>, which would
> reference the
> MIME Content-ID of the certificate in the multipart-related
> structure. No
> other parts of the XML body would need to be altered.
>
> The use of multipart/related is a natural choice since this
> was the future
> direction of the profile exchange described in section 5 of the draft.
>
> Does the list have comments on this suggestion? Are there
> other alternatives
> we should consider? Unless there is reservations about this
> choice, the
> draft editors will implement this multipart/related structure
> and resubmit
> the updated draft both to the EDIINT list and the IETF area
> directors end of
> next week.
>
> Kyle Meadors
> Program Manager
> Drummond Group Inc.
> 615.384.5006
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