Dear Group,

Following the recent BoF and discussion with Stephen Farrell, the plan
is to try to publish an experimental RFC for CT and, all going well,
follow up later with a WG.

In the experimental RFC we will cover the operation of the log, the
log protocol and TLS client verification of CT. We will be
specifically targetting the use of CT with PKI for HTTPS, and not
other applications such as DNSSEC, self-signed certs, device certs,
other TLS secured protocols, etc. Not that we exclude the possibility
of using transparency logs for such things, of course, they just will
not be covered by this initial RFC.

The RFC will be broadly similar the existing I-D but will flesh out
the protocols for interacting with the log, as far as they are
currently defined. It will add RSA signatures for logs that would
prefer to use it.

It will not cover details of the audit process (that is, how clients
verify that the timestamps they see really are included in the public
log) as we think that will evolve quite rapidly for some time to come.

The approximate timeline is that we hope to go to IETF last call
around the end of the year.

I intend to put out at least one more version for comment before that,
though.

As always, all comments are welcome.

Cheers,

Ben.
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