CMP Interop Project
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CMP Interop Goals
Establish interoperability of Certificate Management Protocol CMP, RFCs 2510 & 2511, and ID 2510bis A set of CMP transactions a public demonstration of CMP interoperability
Initial efforts in 4 workshops May 99 - Nov ‘99 ICSA.net is coordinating/running Interop
efforts
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Completed Milestones
Solicit participation (22 Mar 2000) Set initial testing and goals (Apr 2000) First workshop, ir/ip (2 - 4 May 2000) Lessons learned, plans for rest of testing
(May 2000) Second workshop, cr/cp (6 - 8 Jun 2000)
Some vendors already testing rr/rp Provide TWG with status update, solicit
feedback (28-29 Jun 2000 in Dublin)
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Active Interop Participants
Certicom (Trustpoint) Cylink Entegrity Entrust TC Trustcenter SSH Sun (Java)
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Next Milestones
Third workshop, rr/rp (11 - 14 Jul 2000) Provide IETF with status update, solicit
feedback (1 - 3 Aug 2000 in Pittsburgh) Fourth workshop, kur/kup (8 - 10 Aug 2000) Fifth workshop, ccr/ccp (5 - 7 Sep 2000) Provide TWG with status update, solicit
feedback (12 - 14 Sep 2000 in Montreal) Plan public demo (Oct 2000)
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Pending Interop Participants
Baltimore IBM Jonah (Reference implementation) NIST Open CA RSA Research Utimaco
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Lessons Learned
CA policy has a major impact on EE use of CMP Need to collect basic policy items
A few areas in specs are unclear Need list ‘lore’ to implement
Is 2510bis stable? Disagreement on pkiConf content
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Conclusions
CMP Interop does not currently exist CMP Interop CAN be achieved this year
Hard work all around Clean up the specs?
More participation needed