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Re: [homenet] Stephen Farrell's Discuss on draft-ietf-homenet-hncp-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 20 November 2015 19:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] Stephen Farrell's Discuss on draft-ietf-homenet-hncp-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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Markus Stenberg <markus.stenberg@iki.fi> wrote:
    >> I'd like to chat about whether or not the DTLS recommendations
    >> are correct here. To me, the consensus stuff (from section 8.3
    >> of dncp) is not clearly baked (as I noted in iesg review of
    >> dncp). The PKI stuff is well known, even if it it is a PITA from
    >> many points of view. I don't think a SHOULD for the former and
    >> a MAY for the latter is appropriate now. If the consensus based
    >> stuff gets deployed and works, then it might be time to say
    >> what you're now saying, but I don't think we're there yet. (I'd
    >> be happy to look @ evidence that we are, and to change my
    >> opinion accordingly.)

    > Given bootstrapping PKI seems nigh impossible (home CA anyone?), I am
    > not sure I agree with you.  I have done that few of times and do not
    > recommend it to anyone. Of course, I guess at some point some products
    > may make it painless but I am not sure I will live long enough to see
    > that. (Especially so that the control stays still within home, and does
    > not stray to some American ‘cloud server’, cough cough.)

The IETF has chartered a group, ANIMA, which might produce something useable.
I don't think that homenet needs to invent something on it's own.

As long as HNCP *CAN* accomodate a one-level deep (no chains of trust) PKI,
then it should be good.  So the security has to be MTI, but MAY configure.

I do agree with Markus' here at present.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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