[ogsa-wg] IETF Transport Layer Security (TLS) status

28 Sep 2006

      As discussed in the call today, here is the current status of the TLS  
group as recorded on the IETF page:

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/tls-charter.html

Goals and Milestones:

Done

Agreement on charter and issues in current draft.
Done

Final draft for Secure Transport Layer Protocol ('STLP')
Done

Working group 'Last Call'
Done

Submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
Done

First revised draft of TLS specification
Done

TSL 1.1 Specification
Done

First draft of TLS 1.2 specification, including CTR mode cipher suites
Done

First draft of specification for cipher suites with combined  
encryption/authentication modes
Dec 2006

Submit specification of TLS 1.2 specification to IESG for publication  
as Proposed Standard
Dec 2006

Submit specification of cipher suites with combined encryption/ 
authentication modes to IESG for publication, with at least one of  
these suites to be Proposed Standard

Alan Sill
TIGRE Senior Scientist
High Performance Computing Center
TTU

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