Re: [dane] Start of WGLC for draft-ietf-dane-openpgpkey: objection about keyring format documentation

[Petr Spacek <[e-mail]>]

On 20.2.2015 21:30, Warren Kumari wrote:
> Please review this draft to see if you think it is ready for
> publication and send comments to the list, clearly stating your view.

IMHO current version *should be rejected* because further clarification to
keyring format is needed.

See previous discussion on
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dane/current/msg07227.html

As I already said, I believe that -01 version does not define an interoperable
standard.

The main problem is that
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dane-openpgpkey-01#section-2.1
2.1. The OPENPGPKEY RDATA component
  The RDATA (or RHS) of an OPENPGPKEY Resource Record contains a single
  value consisting of a [RFC4880] formatted OpenPGP public keyring.

references

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-3.6
3.6. Keyrings
  A keyring is a collection of one or more keys in a file or database.
  Traditionally, a keyring is simply a sequential list of keys, but may
  be any suitable database.  It is beyond the scope of this standard to
  discuss the details of keyrings or other databases.

and this definitely is not a definition you could use for implementation.
	
Current format of records can stay as is but it has to be clearly documented
so we do not rely on current GPG implementation.

'It is beyond the scope of this standard to discuss the details of keyrings or
other databases.' is simply not sufficient.

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Petr Spacek  @  Red Hat