[Hipsec-rg] comments on draft-heer-hip-middle-auth-01

[miika.komu at hiit.fi (Miika Komu)]

Joakim Koskela wrote:

Hi,

> On Wednesday 24 September 2008 12:43:21 Ren? Hummen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> As a matter of procedure, there are a few directions the RG can take
>>> with respect to this or any draft within scope of our charter:
>>> 1) agree to take on the draft as a RG item and try to publish it as a RG
>>> draft, according to the process being defined in
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-rfcs-01.txt
>>> 2) recommend to the HIP WG that they take the draft
>>> 3) decline to take the draft and recommend to the authors to publish it
>>> as an independent submission
>>>
>>> If we agree to 1), we will need to come to some RG consensus on the
>>> draft and willingness to work on it through the publication process.
>>>
>>> Comments?
>> I recommend it as a WG draft as the security enhancements described in
>> there are necessary for providing secure middlebox functions like the HIP
>> relay, which e.g. is used in the NAT traversal draft.
>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> +1 for the same reasons.

as a co-author of the draft, I tend to be biased but +1 for me too.