Re: [apps-discuss] Proposal for a Finance Area Mailing List

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

On 03/09/2012 03:31 PM, Walter wrote:
>
> Perhaps the formalistic side of the IETF's grizzled core expertise
> might be more valuable when applied to, for example:
>   (1) the design of bindings between a message oriented application
> layer financial transaction protocol that comes out of the mailing
> list in question (either formalized through a later formed BOF or WG,
> or not) and various available transports (as per JeffH's suggestion).
>   (2) the design of optional security related extensions for the same
>
> Both of these areas strike me as best approached at some later stage,
> for example after discussions have occurred on the proposed list.

IMO "optional security extensions later" for this would be a bad,
and in the IETF, unlikely, plan if it came to developing a protocol
like this.

I've no opinion on whether this ought be done, here or anywhere,
but if done here, I do have an opinion on when security needs to
be tackled.

S