Commercial Internet Protocol Security Option

Commercial Internet Protocol Security Option (cipso)

CharterStatus: Concluded March, 1995 Chair(s): Ron Sharp Description of Working Group:The Commercial Internet Protocol Security Option Working Group ischartered to define an IP security option that can be used to pass securityinformation within and between security domains.  This new security optionwill be modular in design to provide developers with a single softwareenvironment which can support multiple security domains.The CIPSO protocol will support a large number of security domains.  Newsecurity domains will be registered with the Internet Assigned NumbersAuthority (IANA) and will be available with minimal difficulty to allparties.There is currently in progress another IP security option referred to asIPSO (RFC 1108).  IPSO is designed to support the security labels used bythe US Department of Defense.  CIPSO will be designed to provide labeling forthe commercial, US civilian and non-US communities.The Trusted Systems Interoperability Group (TSIG) has developed a documentwhich defines a structure for the proposed CIPSO option.  The working group will use this document as a foundation for developing an IETF CIPSOspecification.