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

[miika at iki.fi (Miika Komu)]

On Thu, 31 May 2007, Simon Josefsson wrote:

Hi,

no worries, I got already feedback that the OpenSSL part should be removed 
or abstracted. It was there mostly to clarify things to myself.

Thanks for the notice on the copyright.

> 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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