OPES Working Group Considers Importance of Preserving End-to-End Data Integrity.

IETF's working group on OPES (Open Pluggable Edge Services) has received guidance from the Internet Architecture Board. OPES deals with services that can reside between a client and a server on the Internet, such as a web proxy cache or other intermediary. CDT submitted comments noting that such services raise serious concerns about the integrity of end-to-end communications, and could enable tampering or censorship. In its "considerations" document, the IAB recognized the importance of notice and consent when such systems are used, so that possible negative impacts are minimized. In an upcoming Standards Bulletin, we will provide an in-depth analysis of OPES.

CDT's original comments on OPES are at http://www.imc.org/ietf-openproxy/mail-archive/msg00828.html.

The IAB's analysis of OPES is at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3238.txt.

The charter of the OPES working group is at http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/opes-charter.html.

The home page of the OPES working group is at http://www.ietf-opes.org/.

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