Show support for HTTP Signatures at IETF

We need your help to advance one of the W3C CCG's work items[1] to go on
the official standards track at the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF) -- the standards setting body for the Internet. The deadline for
helping is Jan 31st 2020 (in ~10 days).

The IETF HTTP Working Group is considering the adoption of the HTTP
Signatures specification as a work item. This specification is currently
a W3C CCG work item (recently transferred from the W3C DVCG).

This is very good news, because the W3C CCG depends on this eventually
becoming an IETF Standard for one of the Authorization mechanisms used
for Encrypted Data Vaults (ZCAP-LD) and the Authorization mechanism that
some DID Ledgers might use (Veres One, for example).

The HTTP Message Signatures specification standardizes how you digitally
sign the content of HTTP Messages. Any authentication or authorization
protocol will depend on this specification (DID Auth HTTP Binding,
Authorization Capabilities for EDVs, DIDComm HTTP Binding).

Here is the IETF HTTP WG Call for Adoption:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2020JanMar/0002.html

To note your support of the specification:

1. Go here and click "subscribe to this list":
     https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/
2. Verify your subscription by checking your email and clicking on the
   link that is mailed to you.
3. Go here and click "respond to this message"
     https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2020JanMar/0002.html
4. Write an email stating:
     4.1 That you support the adoption of the draft.
     4.2 Why you support the adoption of the draft.
     4.3 How you plan to make use the specification, either directly, or
         indirectly (via someone else's software).
5. Set up an email filter to put all mail sent to ietf-http-wg@w3.org
   into its own folder. The mailing list averages ~350 emails/month. You
   can also leave the mailing list immediately after sending the email
   above if that amount of email traffic is unacceptable to you.

For an example of the type of email you could write, see this:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2020JanMar/0018.html

-- manu

[1] https://github.com/w3c-ccg/http-signatures

-- 
Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny)
Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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Received on Monday, 20 January 2020 18:28:15 UTC