Request for submission of KMIP V1.0 Profiles for consideration as an OASIS standard

[<robert.griffin@rsa.com>]

hi -
The KMIP co-chairs request the submission of the KMIP V1.0 Profiles to
OASIS membership for consideration as an OASIS standard, as specified in
the OASIS Technical Committee Process section 3.4. Please let us know of
any additions or changes that you need to these requests?

thanks!

Bob Griffin /  Subhash Sankuratripati
co-chairs, KMIP Technical Committee

Simultaneously with the approval of a Committee Specification or at a
later date, and after three Statements of Use have been presented to the
TC, a TC may resolve by Special Majority Vote to submit the Committee
Specification to the Membership of OASIS for consideration as an OASIS
Standard. Upon resolution of the TC to submit the specification, its
Chair shall submit the following items to the TC Administrator:
(a) Links to the approved Committee Specification in the TC's document
repository, and any appropriate supplemental documentation for the
specification, both of which must be written using the OASIS templates.
The specification may not have been changed between its approval as a
Committee Specification and its submission to OASIS for consideration as
an OASIS Standard, except for the changes on the title page and running
footer noting the approval status and date. 
We are requesting submission of the following KMIP V1.0 Committee
Specification to the Membership of OASIS for considerations as an OASIS
standard:  

http://docs.oasis-open.org/kmip/profiles/v1.0/cs01/kmip-profiles-1.0-cs-
01.pdf


 (b) The editable version of all files that are part of the Committee
Specification;
The editable versions of the above documents are available at:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/kmip/profiles/v1.0/cs01/kmip-profiles-1.0-cs-
01.doc

(c) Certification by the TC that all schema and XML instances included
in the specification, whether by inclusion or reference, including
fragments of such, are well formed, and that all expressions are valid;
The KMIP co-chairs certify that the KMIP V1.0 Profiles document includes
expression of message format and contents; all instances of such
expressions included in the specification, whether by inclusion or
reference, including fragments of such, are well formed and valid. KMIP
V1.0 does not include schema or XML expressions.

(d) A clear English-language summary of the specification; 
The Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) establishes a
single, comprehensive protocol for communication between enterprise key
management servers and cryptographic clients. By defining a protocol
that can be used by any cryptographic client, from the smallest
automated electric meters to the most complex disk-arrays, KMIP enables
enterprise key management servers to speak a single protocol to all
cryptographic clients supporting the protocol. Through vendor support of
KMIP, an enterprise will be able to consolidate key management in a
single enterprise key management system, reducing operational and
infrastructure costs while strengthening operational controls and
governance of security policy.  

KMIP includes three primary elements:

*	Objects. These are the symmetric keys, asymmetric keys, digital
certificates and so on upon which operations are performed.
	
*	Operations. These are the actions taken with respect to the
objects, such as getting an object from a key management system,
modifying attributes of an object and so on.

*	Attributes. These are the properties of the object, such as the
kind of object it is, the unique identifier for the object, and so on.

The protocol supports other elements, such as the use of templates that
can simplify the specification of attributes in a request or response.
But at its most basic level, KMIP consists of placing objects,
operations and/or attributes either into a request from a cryptographic
client to a key management server or into a response from a key
management server to a cryptographic client.

(e) A statement regarding the relationship of this specification to
similar work of other OASIS TCs or other standards developing
organizations;
As a transport-level protocol, KMIP is complementary to other key
management efforts, including OASIS EKMI and IEEE P1619.3, expressed in
XML.KMIP leverages other standards whenever possible. For example, it
uses the key life-cycle specified in NIST special publication 800-57 to
define attributes related to key states. It uses network security
mechanisms such as TLS to establish authenticated communication between
the key management system and the cryptographic client. It relies on
existing standards for encryption algorithms, key derivation and many
other aspects of a cryptographic solution, focusing on the unique and
critical problem of interoperable messages between key management
systems and cryptographic clients. 
 
(f) The Statements of Use presented above; 
Statements of Use are available at the following locations:
Cryptsoft:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/kmip/email/archives/201006/
msg00020.html

HP :
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/kmip/email/archives/201006/
msg00021.html

IBM
:http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/kmip/email/archives/201006
/msg00019.html

RSA:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/kmip/email/archives/201006/
msg00018.html

Safenet (client only):
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/kmip/email/archives/201006/
msg00023.html

(g) The beginning and ending dates of the public review(s), a pointer to
the announcement of the public review(s), and a pointer to an account of
each of the comments/issues raised during the public review period(s),
along with its resolution; 
First public review:
-	beginning date: 1-December-2009
-	ending date: 30-January-2010
-	announcement:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/kmip/200911/msg00050.html
-	comments spreadsheet:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/kmip/download.php/38097/KMI
P_nontc_public_review_comments%202feb10.xlsx
	

Second public review:
-	beginning date: 29-April-2010
-	ending date: 14-May-2010
-	announcement:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/kmip/email/archives/201004/
msg00021.html
-	comments spreadsheet:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/38083/KMIP%20non-TC%20
Public%20Review%202%20Comments%201jun2010.xls

(h) An account of and results of the voting to approve the specification
as a Committee Specification, including the date of the ballot and a
pointer to the ballot; 
KMIP TC unanimously agreed on 27-May-2010 to request the OASIS TC Admin
to initiate a Special Majority Vote to approve the KMIP V1.0 Profiles
(see location above) as a Committee Specification. The ballot started
7-June-2010 and ended 14-June-2010., with the following results:
In favor: 28  (100% of votes; 82% of eligible voters)
Opposed: 0
Abstain: 1
Did not vote: 5
In addition, the KMIP TC unanimously agreed on 10-June-2010 to request
the OASIS TC Admin to initiate a Special Majority Vote to request a vote
by the OASIS membership to approve the KMIP V1.0 Profiles committee
specification as an OASIS Standard. The ballot started 30-June-2010 and
ended 7-July-2010., with the following results:
In favor: 31 (100% of votes; 91% of eligible voters)
Opposed: 0
Abstain: 0
Did not vote: 3
(i) An account of or pointer to votes and comments received in any
earlier attempts to standardize substantially the same specification,
together with the originating TC's response to each comment;
There were no earlier attempts to standardize this or any other KMIP
specification.

(j) A pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the
originating TC; 
The publicly visible comments archive for KMIP TC is available at
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/kmip-comment/.

(k) A pointer to any minority reports delivered by one or more Members
who did not vote in favor of approving the Committee Specification,
which report may include statements regarding why the member voted
against the specification or that the member believes that Substantive
Changes were made which have not gone through public review; or
certification by the Chair that no minority reports exist.
The KMIP co-chairs certify that no minority reports exist.