Re: An RFC from the IAB

Brian Carpenter CERN-CN <brian@dxcoms.cern.ch> Wed, 27 March 1996 08:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: An RFC from the IAB
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From: Brian Carpenter CERN-CN <brian@dxcoms.cern.ch>
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In-Reply-To: <6638.827896025@munnari.OZ.AU> from "Robert Elz" at Mar 27, 96 02:07:05 pm
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Compromising on Jeff's comments: I propose to add:

>     How about in addition:
>     
>     6.5 To ensure interoperation between endpoints making use of
>     security services, one algorithm (or suite of algorithms) should be
>     mandated to ensure the ability to negotiate a secure context between
>     implementations.  Without this implementations might otherwise not
>     have an algorithm in common and not be able to communicate securely.
> 

RFC-editor -- please take the text I sent you out of the queue.
Since this is a *new* point I feel obliged to re-post an I-D.

   Brian