Re: [Anima] minor clarifications to voucher

William Atwood <william.atwood@concordia.ca> Tue, 20 June 2017 14:31 UTC

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Nit:
s/manufacture/manufacturer/

See below for position.

  Bill

On 20/06/2017 10:14 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> Based upon discussion last week about synchronizing the voucher document with
> the BRSKI MASA protocol the following clarification was made to the voucher
> document as part of the WGLC:
> 
> 
> -          signed using a PKCS#7 structure.  The voucher artifact is generated by
> -          the pledge's manufacture or delegate (i.e. the MASA).</t>
> +          signed using a PKCS#7 structure.  The voucher artifact is normally generated by
> +          the pledge's manufacture or delegate (i.e. the Manufacturer Authorized Signing
                          manufacturer
> +          Authority). A voucher artifact could be signed by a non-MASA and be compliant
> +          to the specified artifact format described in this document. The appropriate
> +          use and trust of such vouchers is out-of-scope of this document.
> +          </t>
> 
>             <t>This document only defines the voucher artifact, leaving it to other
>             documents to describe specialized protocols for accessing it.</t>
> @@ -75,7 +79,8 @@
> 
>           <t>This document defines a strategy to securely assign a pledge to an owner,
>           using an artifact signed, directly or indirectly, by the pledge's manufacturer
> -        or delegate (i.e. the MASA).  This artifact is known as the voucher.</t>
> +        or delegate, i.e. the Manufacturer Authorized Signing
> +        Authority (MASA).  This artifact is known as the voucher.</t>
> 
>           <t>The voucher artifact is a JSON document, conforming to a data model
>           described by YANG <xref target="RFC7950"/>,  that has been signed using
> @@ -265,7 +270,7 @@ NOTE: All voucher types include a 'Pledge ID serial number'
> 
>         <section title="Voucher" anchor="voucher">
> 
> -        <t>The voucher's purpose is to securely assign a pledge to an owner.
> +        <t>The voucher's primary purpose is to securely assign a pledge to an owner.
>           The voucher informs the pledge which entity it should consider to be
>          its owner.</t>
> 
> 
> --
> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
>  -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
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