Web Transaction Security (wts)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 07/16/2001

 Current Status: Concluded Working Group

 Chair(s):
     Charlie Kaufman  <charlie_kaufman@iris.com>

 Security Area Director(s):
     Jeffrey Schiller  <jis@mit.edu>
     Steve Bellovin  <smb@research.att.com>

 Security Area Advisor:
     Jeffrey Schiller  <jis@mit.edu>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:www-security@nsmx.rutgers.edu
     To Subscribe:      www-security-request@nsmx.rutgers.edu
     Archive:           http://www-ns.rutgers.edu/www-security

Description of Working Group:

The goal of the Web Transaction Security Working Group is to develop
requirements and a specification for the provision of security services
to Web transaction, e.g., transactions using HyperText Transport 
Protocol
(HTTP). This work will proceed in parallel to and independently of the
development of non-security features in the HTTP Working Group. The
working group will prepare two documents for submission as Internet
Drafts; an HTTP Security Requirements Specification, and an HTTP
Security Protocol Specification. The latter will be submitted as a
Standards Track RFC.

 Goals and Milestones:

   JUL 95       HTTP Security Requirements finalized at the Stockholm IETF. 
                Submit HTTP Security Specification proposal(s) as 
                Internet-Drafts. 

   DEC 95       HTTP Security Specification finalized at the Dallas IETF, 
                submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 

   Done         HTTP Security Requirements submitted as Internet-Draft. 


 Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet-Drafts.

 Request For Comments:

  RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC2084 I    JAN 97    Considerations for Web Transaction Security 

RFC2660 E    SEP 99    The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol 

RFC2659 E    SEP 99    Security Extensions For HTML