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Re: [btns] WG Action: Conclusion of Better-Than-Nothing Security (btns)

"Laganier, Julien" <julienl@qualcomm.com> Tue, 16 March 2010 20:02 UTC

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From: "Laganier, Julien" <julienl@qualcomm.com>
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Subject: Re: [btns] WG Action: Conclusion of Better-Than-Nothing Security (btns)
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Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:39:18AM -0700, IESG Secretary wrote:
> > The ADs would like to thank everyone who has been involved in the
> > BTNS specification work, the chairs, Sam Hartman who was the responsible
> > AD when the BTNS working group was formed, and various reviewers who
> > helped greatly improve the BTNS specifications.
> 
> I second this, and also thank the current security ADs.

+1

And let me add that while I am bit disappointed that we couldn't conclude the API documents, I think it is fair to say that the most important deliverables are there: the unauthenticated IPsec mode (RFC 5386), and the IPsec connection latching (RFC 5660.)

Hopefully these two useful pieces of work get implemented and leveraged on by applications in a near future. When that happens, the chances to document a proven API will IMHO greatly increase. In my experience it has never been easy to work on APIs within the IETF, especially in cases such as this where there isn't a lot of hands-on experience with interfacing applications to the network mechanism.

Thanks again to everybody that got involved in this.

--julien

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