kent@BBN.COM (Steve Kent) (04/22/89)
The April Internet Monthly Report reported plans for a workshop top address "an IP option for commercial security." The goal of the workshop is to explore issues associated with the creation of a new IP option which would address security concerns that arise in the commercial (vs. DoD) community. For example,the current RIPSO is not designed to accommodate sensitivity labels for a variety of non- government organizations, nor is there an infrastructure established to register such labels and associated policies (ala' ISO/CCITT resgitration). We may not come away from the workshop with a new option format and all the attendant documentation, but we do hope to explore requirements,anticipated usage patterns,formats, etc. The workshop is being "sponsored" by the IAB and by NIST. It is an invitation only gathering with a requirement that prospective participants prepare and sumbit (in advance) material for presentation during the workshop. Thus there will be no attendees who are not also presenters. I hope this asnwers the questions raised by Dave Miller's message earlier this week. Steve Kent Chair, IAB Task Force on Privacy and Security