Tuecke, et. al. Expires February 2002 1 Internet Draft S. Tuecke Document: draft-ietf-pkix-proxy-01.txt D. Engert I. Foster ANL V. Welch U. Chicago M. Thompson LBNL L. Pearlman C. Kesselman USC/ISI Expires: February 2002 August 2001 1 Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. 2 Abstract This document forms a certificate profile for Proxy Certificates, based on X.509 PKI certificates as defined in draft-ietf-pkix-new-part1-08.txt (the draft update to RFC 2459), for use in the Internet. The term Proxy Certificate is used to describe a certificate that is derived from, and signed by, a normal X.509 Public Key End Entity Certificate or by another Proxy Certificate for the purpose of providing restricted impersonation within a PKI based authentication system.