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Re: [homenet] security work items - what do we want to do?

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Wed, 24 January 2018 02:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] security work items - what do we want to do?
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Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
    > - Does this sound roughly right or off the wall?

It sounds right.
I think that bootstrap of security should become an recharter item in the
future.  Some kind of BCP on interactions with MUD, SUIT, etc. IN THE
FUTURE. NOT NOW.

    > 2. We have this milestone in our charter:

    > "Nov 2018 - Submission of the perimeter security draft
    > to the IESG as Informational RFC"

Yes.  Are the authors still engaged?
I think I've missed the last three homenet WG sessions due to conflicts.
I find that the ML is too frequently ratholed when it isn't silent.

    > - Does the homenet wg need to profile use of those
    > security mechanisms, for example to document a way to
    > establish initial keying material that we'd like to see
    > implemented when those protocols are used in home networks?

    > - If so, (and without yet getting into discussions about ToFU
    > etc) do we have people who are interested in working on
    > that?

Yes, but not yet.

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