RFC 4387 on Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols: Certificate Store Access

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        RFC 4387

        Title:      Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure

                    Operational Protocols: Certificate Store
Access via 
                    HTTP 
        Author:     P. Gutmann,  Ed.
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       February 2006
        Mailbox:    pgut001cs.auckland.ac.nz
        Pages:      25
        Characters: 63182
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-pkix-certstore-http-09.txt

        URL:        http://www.
rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4387.txt

The protocol conventions described in this document satisfy
some of the
operational requirements of the Internet Public Key
Infrastructure (PKI).
This document specifies the conventions for using the
Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP/HTTPS) as an interface mechanism to obtain
certificates and
certificate revocation lists (CRLs) from PKI repositories. 
Additional
mechanisms addressing PKIX operational requirements are
specified in
separate documents.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the Public-Key Infrastructure
(X.509)
Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet
standards track
protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion
and suggestions for improvements.Please refer to the current
edition of
the Internet Official Protocol Standards (STD 1) for the 
standardization state and status of this protocol. 
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