Mohamed Boucadair has entered the following ballot position for
charter-ietf-cose-03-01: No Objection

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I understand that this recharter is to include required anchor for some already
adopted WG documents. Thanks for taking care of this.

# Charter not a progress report

Part of the new charter seems like a progress report than a charter text. For
example, I’m not sure I would maintain the following notes in the final charter:

(1)     (draft-ietf-cose-tsa-tst-header-parameter-05, reached IESG evaluation
before the gap in the charter was noticed)

(2)     (the draft with the now somewhat dated file name
draft-ietf-cose-merkle-tree-proofs-13, was in IETF last call until 2025-05-13
and is waiting on a recharter before it is placed on the IESG ballot)

(3)     (draft-ietf-cose-hash-envelope-05, approaching WGLC)

We may also delete “The WG has adopted and mostly completed work in the
following three areas” for a better flow vs. “The WG currently has five work
items”.

Please find below some additional comments:

# Both cited RFCs were obsoleted

CURRENT:
  CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE, RFC 8152) describes how to
  create and process signatures, message authentication codes, and
  encryption using Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR, RFC 7049)
  for serialization. COSE additionally describes a representation for
  cryptographic keys.

# 6TiSCH was concluded, consider removing from the “is being used” list

# I guess these are examples not definitive list

OLD:
  COSE has been picked up and is being used both by a number of groups
  within the IETF (i.e., ACE, CORE, ANIMA, 6TiSCH and SUIT) and
  outside the IETF (i.e., W3C and FIDO).

NEW:
  COSE has been picked up and is being used both by a number of groups
  within the IETF (e.g., ACE, CORE, ANIMA, and SUIT) and
  outside the IETF (e.g., W3C and FIDO).

# I guess we meant RFC 9052 (and/or RFC 9338 ?)

CURRENT:
  The specification has advanced to STD status.

# Document types

CURRENT:
 The COSE working group will deal with two types of documents going forward:
1.      Documents that describe the use of cryptographic algorithms in COSE.
2.      Documents which describe additional attributes for COSE.
3.      Documents that define header parameters to be used in COSE objects.

s/two/three

# Missing “.”

OLD:
  of COSE, with a general goal to complete the listed work items before adopting
  new work

NEW:
  of COSE, with a general goal to complete the listed work items before adopting
  new work.

# Single place for collaboration with other WGs

This is currently spread in many places, e.g.,

   The working group will coordinate its progress with the ACE, SUIT and
   CORE working groups to ensure that it is fulfilling the needs of
   these constituencies to the extent relevant to their work. Other
   groups may be added to this list as the set of use cases is expanded,
   in consultation with the responsible Area Director.

…

   The working group will collaborate and coordinate with other IETF WGs such
   as TLS, UTA, LAKE to understand and validate the requirements and solution.

Better to have those in one single place.

# Stale reference

•       draft-ietf-uta-tls13-iot-profile-00

Cheers,
Med



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