[Add] Authentication Sub-topics for Tuesday Interim (homework for Tuesday's meeting)

["Deen, Glenn" <[e-mail]>]

Hi ADD,

Authentication clearly has emerged as a topic important to the group.   It showed up during the ADD Interim on Sept 10th in both comments and in jabber. Prior to that It has shown up in  drafts, list traffic and GitHub issues.      Coming out of the Interim yesterday it was proposed as the starting topic for the next interim on Tuesday Sept 15.

To help focus and facilitate productive conversation the chairs would like to ask for the group’s help in breaking down the topic of authentication into sub-topics for Tuesday’s interim session.

Here’s a small homework assignment for the next couple of days to help set the Interim agenda:  We ask that ADD participants please take a few minutes and post to this list thread authentication sub-topics you’d like to cover.

To get you thinking on the question,  consider that authentication has come up in a variety of ADD discussions:

      (1) Topic:  the question of can DHCP play a role in discovery which has resulted in many saying “No” since it isn’t authenticated;
      (2) Topic:  the question of authentication’s role in resolver discovery and validation;
      (3) Topic:  the question of authentication to enable identification of resolvers that are associated or affiliated with one another or an organization
      ….


This list is by no means complete and is meant to illustrate a few of the places and contexts the topic of “Authentication” has popped up recently.

Please share what authentication topic, scenario, role, need you believe the ADD group should spend time discussing on the Tuesday agenda.

Please limit discussion on this particular thread to only sharing what authentication sub-topic aspect you’d like to see discussed and not expand into a discussion of the sub-topics themselves.   Yes this all interesting stuff, but the thread can quickly become overwhelming for readers to follow.

So limit, for now, responses to what you’d like to discuss – not the actual technical discussion.

Also, this may prompt some responders to feel like now it is a good time to stray into policy discussions.   Please try to self-regulate and not go there.    ADD is limited to technical mechanisms to do discovery and a means to convey information about the discovered resolvers – and the discussion needs to stay withing those boundaries.

Regards
Glenn Deen & David Lawrence – ADD Chairs