Meeting Minutes for April 24, 2026 - oasis-tcs/kmip GitHub Wiki

Meeting commenced 9:00 AM US-EST

Attendance

Name Organization
Azarsky, Asaf NetApp
Bartell, Jeff Individual
Chevalier, Tim NetApp
Furlong, Judith Dell
Hudson, Tim Cryptsoft
Marshall, Scott Cryptsoft
Rich, Bruce Cryptsoft
  • 7 of 8 Eligible Attendees
  • 87.5% Quorum Achieved

Proposed Agenda

  • Welcome and Introductions (15 minutes)
    • Roll Call
    • Review/Approve Agenda
    • Approve Minutes (April 9, 2026)
  • KMIP 3.0 Wrap-up (45 minutes)
    • KMIP 3.0 Spec/UG Delta - Cryptographic Length of Asymmetric Keys
    • KMIP 3.0 Status
      • KMIP 3.0 Profiles/Test Cases
      • KMIP 3.0 Specification
      • KMIP 3.0 Usage Guide
    • Timeline for Standardization
  • KMIP in Markdown (15 minutes)
    • Convert from MSWord to Markdown
  • Break (15 minutes)
  • KMIP vNext Planning (75 minutes)
    • Minor (3.1) vs Major (4.0)
    • Target Timeline
    • Candidate Content
      • Other System Objects
      • LMS Signature Proposal
      • XMSS Signature Proposal
      • CBOR
      • Locate predicates
      • Convert from MSWord to Markdown
      • FIDO2 / Passkey Authentication support
      • PQC Composite Signatures
      • Spec Update for Key States and Times
      • Passing Attestation Data
      • New/Updated Profiles (e.g. SED profile for MPA, CNSA 2.0, etc.)
  • New Business
    • F2F and Interop cadence
  • Wrap-up (15 minutes)
    • Action Item Recap
    • Next Meeting - May 7, 2026
  • Adjourn Meeting

Motion to approve Agenda

  • Tim H moves, Tim C seconds. No objections, abstentions, or comments. Agenda approved.

Motion to approve previous meeting minutes from April 9, 2026

  • Judy moves, Tim C seconds. No objections, abstentions, or comments. Minutes for the April 9, 2026 meeting are approved.

KMIP 3.0 Wrap-up

KMIP 3.0 Spec/UG Delta - Cryptographic Length of Asymmetric Keys

  • Work item Cryptographic Length of Asymmetric Keys was discussed.
  • The KMIP TC reached consensus on
    • For elliptic curves, using the value after the published curve name and if there is not a number there to use the effective bits.
    • Updating the usage guide to add differences between classic and post quantum algorithms.

Motion to draft an update to the spec so that elliptic curves use of cryptographic length follow the principle of least surprise and for PQC encode the behavior of cryptographic link handling to match the current definition of cryptographic length.

  • Tim H moves, Judy seconds. No objections, abstentions, or comments. Motion approved.

KMIP 3.0 Status

KMIP 3.0 Profiles/Test Cases
  • Tim H will go back through the Usage Guide updates to make sure there are test cases for all the updates. Per Tim H, this work does not need to hold up 3.0.
KMIP 3.0 Specification
  • Scott will go through the 3.0 work items and propose spec updates for WD23 for Tim H to review.
KMIP 3.0 Usage Guide
  • Judy is working on WD3 of the Usage Guide.

Timeline for Standardization

  • The KMIP TC agreed to wrap up work by May 7 and anything that is left over should be in the hands of the co-editors for completion by May 21.

KMIP in Markdown (10 minutes)

  • Using Markdown instead of MSWord and how PKCS#11 is using Markdown was discussed.

Motion that the next version of all formal KMIP TC work output be done in Markdown.

  • Jeff moves, Tim C seconds. No objections, abstentions, or comments. Motion approved.

  • Jeff will reach out to Simo about the conversion process that PKCS#11 used.

Break

KMIP vNext Planning

Minor (3.1) vs Major (4.0)

  • The KMIP TC agreed that the next version would be a minor release with a target of six months of work.

Target Timeline

  • The timeline for KMIP 3.1 was discussed.

Motion that the next version of KMIP be 3.1, timeboxed to six months of work starting when KMIP 3.0 goes out for public review.

  • Tim H moves, Judy seconds. No objections, abstentions, or comments. Motion approved.

Motion that the KMIP TC adopts an alternating major/minor release cadence beginning with KMIP 4.0, with each release timeboxed to six months of work.

  • Tim C moves, Tim H seconds. No objections, abstentions, or comments. Motion approved.

Candidate Content

New Business

  • Cadences for face-to-face meetings and Interops were discussed.
  • There was agreement to target having face-to-face meetings annually the Friday after ICMC.

Motion for the next F2F to be held Friday, April 16 2027 after ICMC 2027.

  • Tim H moves, Jeff seconds. No objections, abstentions, or comments. Motion approved.

  • The next interop was discussed and it was agreed to have the KMIP 3.1 Interop in October 2026.

  • Cryptsoft and NetApp said they would participate. Tim H will reach out to P6R about participating.

Wrap-up

Action Item Recap

  • Scott will go through the 3.0 work items and propose spec updates for WD23 for Tim H to review.
  • Asaf will put together a proposal for Locate Predicates.
  • Everyone in the KMIP TC will review the KMIP profiles to identify new profiles to be added (Tim H mentioned people asking him about QKD profiles) and to identify profiles for deprecation and removal.
  • Everyone in the KMIP TC will review standards for weak ciphers.
  • Judy to find references to AES-XTS from this year's ICMC presentations.
  • KMIP TC co-chairs to refresh the KMIP information on the OASIS site.
  • Bruce and Tim H to send emails for their Leave of Absences.

Next Meeting

  • Next TC Meeting: May 7, 2026

Adjourn Meeting

  • Tim C moves and Bruce seconds, No objections, abstentions, or comments. Meeting adjourned.

Meeting Ended at 12:02 PM US-EST