Gordian Envelope IETF Internet Draft

This is the working area for the individual Internet-Draft, "draft-mcnally-envelope".

• Editor's Copy
• Datatracker Page
• Individual Draft
• Compare Editor's Copy to Individual Draft

Change History

Sep 30, 2025 - 10

Aug 17, 2023 - 03

• Heavily edited for feedback from IETF 117.
• Removed cases for compressed, encrypted, and known-value. These will be documented in extension specifications.
• Reduced IANA tag requests to a single tag for envelope: #6.200.

May 4, 2023 - 02

• Renumbered CBOR tags in preparation for IANA registration.
• Added compressed case.
• Various clarifications and corrections.

Mar 6, 2023 - 01

• Switched to SHA-256 as native digest algorithm, removed BLAKE3.
• Various clarifications and corrections.

Dec 1, 2022 - 00

• Initial version

Contributing

See the guidelines for contributions.

Contributions can be made by creating pull requests. The GitHub interface supports creating pull requests using the Edit (✏) button.

Command Line Usage

Formatted text and HTML versions of the draft can be built using make.

$ make

Command line usage requires that you have the necessary software installed. See the instructions.