[anonsec] Consensus call on WG adoption of draft-komu-btns-api-01

[simon at josefsson.org (Simon Josefsson)]

I object to standardize any API that uses data types from a particular
external implementation (in this case OpenSSL).

The approach used in this document appear to require that every
implementation of the document needs to #include OpenSSL headers, and
possibly call OpenSSL functions (the implementation of the
ipsec_openssl_to_channel_info is unclear to me).  I believe that is
clearly unacceptable for any Standards Track document.

If this problem can be solved, by having a generic interface to input
the necessary information needed from the TLS library, the document
seems like a useful contribution to me.

A suggestion for an improvement to the document would be to add a
copyright license to the example code to make it possible to use the
example in implementations.  This often helps spread usage and leads to
faster adoption of the API.  See section 3 of
draft-josefsson-free-standards-howto-00.txt.

/Simon

Julien Laganier <julien.IETF at laposte.net> writes:

> Folks,
>
> Miika has worked on C-bindings for the abstract API 
> (draft-komu-btns-api-01). Hereby I'd like to call for 
> WG adoption of this document. If you agree, or 
> disagree with adoption, please send an email saying so 
> to the mailing list without changing the subject line 
> before 2007-06-14. (OTOH please do change the subject 
> line if you want to discuss contents of the documents 
> themselves.)
>
> (If you have no time to read the documents, you might 
> take a look at their respective presentations given 
> during last meeting.)
>
> -- julien / BTNS co-chair
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