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RE: Security for various IETF services

<l.wood@surrey.ac.uk> Fri, 04 April 2014 22:59 UTC

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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 23:58:46 +0100
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I haven't had an answer to my questions from Stephen.

"nonetheless access to that data
should use best practices for security and privacy."

why?

" New services will however generally only be made
available in ways that use security protocols such as
TLS."

again, why?


"Because... SECURITY!" would not be a good answer.

Lloyd Wood
http://about.me/lloydwood
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From: ietf [ietf-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Dick Franks [rwfranks@acm.org]
Sent: 04 April 2014 21:12
To: Hector Santos
Cc: IETF-Discussion
Subject: Re: Security for various IETF services

On 4 April 2014 20:48, Hector Santos <hsantos@isdg.net<mailto:hsantos@isdg.net>> wrote:

Everyone else has already touch based with the same issues.

 Silence could easily be misconstrued as acceptance.

[snip]
  Stephen asked about the last sentence:

  New services will however generally only be made
  available in ways that use security protocols such as
  TLS.

Which to my eye looks like a conclusion;  without shred of justification and before any meaningful discussion has taken place.


26 messages on and the consensus thus far is that an answer to Lloyd Wood's one-liner is very much required.

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