Re: [Ideas] WG Review: IDentity Enabled Networks (ideas)

Joel Halpern Direct <jmh.direct@joelhalpern.com> Thu, 05 October 2017 01:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ideas] WG Review: IDentity Enabled Networks (ideas)
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Yes, authentication is necessary to modify the entries.  (Whether one 
should be authenticated before reading varies from case to case.)

But authentication does not require a separate identity.  Exactly what 
it requires depends upon how the system is constructed.

Uma was arguing that they need an identity.  I am arguing that such a 
thing is counter-productive.

Yours,
Joel

On 10/4/17 9:37 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 09:35:38PM -0400, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
>> Uma,
>>       It simply does not follow that you need an identity in order to be
>> able to update the mapping system.  You do need authentication.
>>        If you use DNS, then mechanissm such as the authentication used
>> with dynamic DNS suffice.
>>        If you use LISP, then the keying associated with the delegation of
>> the identifier works.
>>        If you use MobileIP, then you need the authentication with your
>> home register.
>>
>>       There is no need for any special Identity.
> 
> My reading of the claim was that authentication is needed in order to
> change the actual map itself, which does seem like a true statement,
> in general.  Authentication is not necessarily needed just to consume
> the map.
> 
> -Ben
>