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 ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Admin 233, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill@ttu.edu ph. 806-742-4350 fax 806-742-4358 : ====================================================================