Message Authentication Signature Service BOF (mass)

Thursday, August 4 at 1030-1230
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CHAIRS: Jim Fenton    <fenton@cisco.com>
        Dave Crocker  <dcrocker@bbiw.net>

DESCRIPTION:

Forgery of headers that indicate message origin is a problem for users of 
Internet mail. This BOF seeks to initiate the MASS working group, to produce 
specifications that permit authentication of message headers during transit, 
using public-key signatures and based on domain name identifiers, with keys 
stored in the responsible identity's DNS hierarchy. A multi-month, multi-vendor 
effort has produced the DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) specification -- 
<draft-allman-dkim-base-00.txt> and <draft-allman-dkim-ssp-00.txt>.  They 
integrate Yahoo DomainKeys and the Cisco Identified Internet Mail proposals. TheDKIM documents are being offered as input to an IETF standardization process

AGENDA:

     - Agenda Bashing (5 min)
     - Status since MASS BoF at IETF-60 (10 min)
     - Problem Statement (20 min)
     - DKIM
       . Specifications summary (25 min)
       . Technical discussion (35 min)
     - Proposed Charter Discussion
       . Description (30 min)
       . Milestones (20 min)

Goals and Milestones:

7/05 Issue initial Internet-Draft[s] of signature specification
10/05 Submit to IESG - for MASS threats and requirements
2/06 Submit to IESG - MASS signature specification
2/06 Submit to IESG - MASS public key Resource Record
5/06 Submit to IESG - MASS policy specification

LOGISTICS:

Mailing list:  ietf-mailsig@imc.org

Subscription:  http://imc.org/ietf-mailsig/index.html

Internet-Drafts:

  http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-allman-dkim-base-00.txt
  http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-allman-dkim-ssp-00.txt