Re: [Cfrg] how can CFRG improve cryptography in the Internet?

[S Moonesamy <[e-mail]>]

Hi Hannes,
At 09:08 12-02-2014, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
>The CFRG might, unfortunately, not be the right group either. To me it
>seems that the folks in this group are focused on crypto (as the name of
>the group indicates). What we need is guys who understand the broader
>Internet ecosystem and know how to improve security libraries and to
>reach out to the wider Internet (security) community. One does not need
>to start from scratch since some of these communities exist but they
>often have no connection to the IETF or the relationship is very weak.
>As such, you often find a misalignment between the IETF security
>community and various other groups.

The above is also valid for other IETF technologies, i.e. there is a 
void between writing specifications and the implementation or 
deployment side.  I would not try to convince the IETF or the IAB to 
do anything about that. :-)

>My impression is that most IETF participants have not even recognized
>the need to take any action yet. I have often heard that this is
>"out-side-the-scope".

Yes.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy