DTN Bundle Metadata Confidentiality Specification
draft-irtf-dtnrg-bundle-metadata-conf-01

Status of this Memo

By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79.

Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.

Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as “work in progress.”

The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt.

The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.

This Internet-Draft will expire on September 10, 2009.

Abstract

This document described a confidentiality ciphersuite for metadata in Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Bundle Protocol (BP) bundles. The content has been incorporated into the Bundle Security Protocol specification [refs.DTNBSP] (Symington, S., Farrell, S., Weiss, H., and P. Lovell, “Bundle Security Protocol Specification,” March 2009.) and this separate document is now withdrawn.

Table of Contents

1.  Introduction
2.  Normative References
§  Author's Address
§  Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements

1.  Introduction

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [refs.RFC2119] (Bradner, S. and J. Reynolds, “Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels,” October 1997.).

This document defined a ciphersuite for the DTN bundle security protocol [refs.DTNBSP] (Symington, S., Farrell, S., Weiss, H., and P. Lovell, “Bundle Security Protocol Specification,” March 2009.) to protect metadata portions of a bundle. The content has been incorporated into the Bundle Security Protocol specification [refs.DTNBSP] (Symington, S., Farrell, S., Weiss, H., and P. Lovell, “Bundle Security Protocol Specification,” March 2009.) and this separate document is now withdrawn.

2. Normative References

Author's Address

Full Copyright Statement

Copyright © The IETF Trust (2009).

This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights.

This document and the information contained herein are provided on an “AS IS” basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY, THE IETF TRUST AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Intellectual Property

The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. Information on the procedures with respect to rights in RFC documents can be found in BCP 78 and BCP 79.

Copies of IPR disclosures made to the IETF Secretariat and any assurances of licenses to be made available, or the result of an attempt made to obtain a general license or permission for the use of such proprietary rights by implementers or users of this specification can be obtained from the IETF on-line IPR repository at http://www.ietf.org/ipr.

The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its attention any copyrights, patents or patent applications, or other proprietary rights that may cover technology that may be required to implement this standard. Please address the information to the IETF at ietf-ipr@ietf.org.