Industry Forums and Standards Organizations from VeriSign, Inc.

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VeriSign innovators participate in industry forums and standards organizations worldwide to guide the development of various standards. Here is a list of some of the activities we are engaged in.

VCS - NetDiscovery >>

Forum: European Telecommunications Standards Institute ( www.etsi.org )

VeriSign Innovator: Anthony Rutkowski

Role: Rapporteur of the SDHA Rapporteur Group, Technical Committee on Lawful Interception

VIS - Digital Brand Management Services >>

Forum: Message Anti-Abuse Working Group (http://www.maawg.org)

VeriSign Innovator: Andrew Newton

Role: Contributor

VIS - Naming Services >>

Forum: Internet Engineering Task Force (http://www.ietf.org/)

VeriSign Innovator: Andy Newton

Role: Lead Author, CRISP Working Group (http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/crisp-charter.html),

RFC 3707 
RFC 3981 
RFC 3982 
RFC 3983 
draft-ietf-crisp-iris-lwz 
draft-ietf-crisp-iris-xpc 
draft-ietf-crisp-iris-dchk 
draft-ietf- crisp-iris-areg

Role: Co-chair, GEOPRIV Working Group, Member XML Directorate

RFC 3663 
RFC 3958

VeriSign Innovator: Dave Blacka

Role: DNSEXT working group member

Role: Co-Author

DNSSEC Experiments, http://tools.ietf.org/wg/dnsext/draft-ietf-dnsext- 
dnssec-experiments/draft-ietf-dnsext-dnssec-experiments-03.txt

DNSSEC Opt-in, http://tools.ietf.org/wg/dnsext/draft-ietf-dnsext-dnssec- 
opt-in/draft-ietf-dnsext-dnssec-opt-in-08.txt

VeriSign Innovator: Scott Hollenbeck

Role: Member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group

Role: Author

RFC 3375, "Generic Registry-Registrar Protocol Requirements", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3375.txt

RFC 3730, "Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3730.txt

RFC 3731, "Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Domain Name Mapping", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3731.txt

RFC 3732, "Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Host Mapping", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3732.txt

RFC 3733, "Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Contact Mapping", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3733.txt

RFC 3734, "Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Transport Over TCP", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3734.txt

RFC 3735, "Guidelines for Extending the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3735.txt

RFC 3749, "Transport Layer Security Protocol Compression Methods", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3749.txt

RFC 3915, "Domain Registry Grace Period Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3915.txt

RFC 4114, "E.164 Number Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4114.txt

RFC 4310, "Domain Name System (DNS) Security Extensions Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4310.txt

Role: Editor

RFC 4089, "IAB and IESG Recommendation for IETF Administrative Restructuring", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4089.txt

Role: Co-Author

RFC 2832, "NSI Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2832.txt

RFC 3470/BCP 70, "Guidelines for the Use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) within IETF Protocols", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3470.txt

RFC 3632, "VeriSign Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 2.0.0", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3632.txt

RFC 3378, "EtherIP: Tunneling Ethernet Frames in IP Datagrams", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3378.txt

Forum: Unicode Consortium ( http://www.unicode.org )

VeriSign Innovators: Mike Van Riper, Rick Andrews, Gary Krall

Role: Member of Unicode Technical Committee and Security Subcommittees ( http://www.unicode.org/consortium/utc.html )

Role: Contributor

UTR #36 (status: released version), http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/ 
UTR #36 Update (status: proposed update), http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/tr36-4.html 
UTS #39 (status: proposed draft), http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/tr39-1.html

VIS - Intelligent Supply Chain Services >>

Forum: EPCglobal ( http://www.epcglobalinc.org )

VeriSign Innovator: Alex Deacon

Role: Chair, Security Software Action Group

Role: Author

EPCglobal Certificate Profile (not yet public)

VSS - Unified Authentication >>

Forum: Open Mobile Alliance ( http://www.openmobilealliance.org)

VeriSign Innovator: Alex Deacon

Role: Editor

Wireless PKI (WPKI), http://www.openmobilealliance.org/release_program/docs/WPKI/WAP- 
217-WPKI-20010424-a.pdf

Role: Co-Author

OnBoard Key Generation Enabler, http://www.openmobilealliance.org/release_program/obkg-v1_0.html

Role: Co-Author/Editor

OMA Certificate and CRL Profile Enabler, http://www.openmobilealliance.org/release_program/docs/WPKI/OMA- 
Security-CertProf-V1_1-20040615-C.pdf

OCSP Mobile Profile Enabler, http://www.openmobilealliance.org/release_program/ocsp_v10.html

Role: Contributor

OMA DRMv2 Specification, http://www.openmobilealliance.org/release_program/docs/DRM/V2_0- 
20050915-C/OMA-TS-DRM-DRM-V2_0-20050915-C.pdf

Forum: IETF ( http://www.ietf.org/ )

VeriSign Innovator: Alex Deacon

Role: Contributor

RFC 3709, “Logotypes in X.509 certificates”, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3709.txt

RFC 2797, “Certificate Management Messages over CMS (CMC)”, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2797.txt

Cisco Systems' Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP)

VeriSign Innovator: David M’Raihi

Role: Author/Editor

HOTP: An HMAC-based One Time Password Algorithm,  
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg01949.html

Forum: CableLabs ( http://www.cablelabs.com/ )

VeriSign Innovator: Alex Deacon

Role: Contributor

DOCSIS 2.0 BPI+ Specification,  
http://www.cablemodem.com/downloads/specs/CM-SP-BPI+_I12-050812.pdf

PacketCable Security Specification,  
http://www.packetcable.com/downloads/specs/PKT-SP-SEC-I12-050812.pdf

VSS - Web Services Security

Forum: OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org )

VeriSign Innovator: Hans Granqvist

Role: Contributor

Web Services Security TC (http://www.oasis- 
open.org/committees/documents.php?wg_abbrev=wss )

Role: Co-Author

Web Services Secure Exchange TC ( http://www.oasis
open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ws-sx)

Web Services Security Policy, http://www.verisign.com/wss/WS- 
SecurityPolicy-1.1.pdf

Forum: Java Community Process ( http://www.jcp.org )

VeriSign Innovator: Hans Granqvist

Role: Contributor

Java XML signature API 105, http://www.jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr105/

VeriSign Innovator: Alex Deacon

Role: Contributor

JSR 177 - Security and Trust Services API for J2ME, http://www.jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr177/