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

[joakim.koskela at hiit.fi (Joakim Koskela)]

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.

br,
Joakim Koskela