I would like to express my full support for the DRAFT-IETF-DANE-SMIME document to advance and become an experimental RFC.
There are several organizations using S/MIME, and it would be useful for them to explore the use of this technology as a certification distribution tool. Having this document as an experimental RFC, rather than as a draft, would help this process. NIST recently published a Special Publication on trustworthy email (SP 800-177), and it would have been useful to quote an official IETF document regarding the use of DANE for S/MIME. Publishing DRAFT-IETF-DANE-SMIME as an experimental RFC will enable discussion of the technology by having a firm document that we are all quoting from. As an experimental RFC, there will be no obligation for others to implement this technology. Also, given that the RFC 7929, “ DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Bindings for OpenPGP,” has been published, not publishing this RFC would seem to imply that the DANE WG is preferring OpenPGP over S/MIME. I think that it would be misleading and not useful to give that impression. Simson Garfinkel
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