OpenPGP minutes

We met on Tuesday afternoon, Mar 20th with the following agenda:

- Agenda bashing
- Pgp/MIME
- Openpgp oven cooking competition
- Pgp consortium
- Charter review
- Wg->fin_wait
Rod Thayer took down the minutes.  This message is derived from his notes.

There were no changes to the agenda so we proceeded with the remaining items.

The PGP/MIME draft is ready for WG Last Call.  The Chair expects the WG will be able to recommend the draft to the IESG within a month.  John Noerenberg noticed a normative reference to the multiple signature draft.  He recommended removing the reference, but formally adopting multiple signatures as an additional work item.

The Chair is planning to sponsor an interoperability testing meeting in San Diego in late Spring or early Summer.  There are notes on the mailing list regarding a general plan for the meeting.  The principal goal of the meeting is to assess whether there are sufficiently interoperable implementations of RFC2440 to allow the WG to recommend RFC2440 advance to DRAFT status.  The workshop will also provide the opportunity to test PGP/MIME implementations and transport and network protocols which use PGP encryption and authentication.

The Chair announced that Phil Zimmerman is organizing a PGP Consortium for implementers and users.  The url for the consortium is http://www.openpgp.org.

Adopting multiple signatures as a work item will require a change to WG charter.  The WG members in attendance did not express a strong opinion in either direction. [Because of activity on the mailing list the Chair plans to request the IESG allow modification of the charter to add this item.]

Whether or not this item is added to our charter, we expect the WG to shut down by the next IETF meeting.

That completed the business of the meeting, and we adjourned.