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Re: [Iot-onboarding] some straw-man charter text for an IoT Operational Security WG

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 12 September 2019 12:39 UTC

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Comments: In-reply-to Mohit Sethi M <mohit.m.sethi@ericsson.com> message dated "Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:21:30 -0000."
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Subject: Re: [Iot-onboarding] some straw-man charter text for an IoT Operational Security WG
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Mohit Sethi M <mohit.m.sethi@ericsson.com> wrote:
    > adopt a cloud-less (MASA-less, AAA-less) onboarding mechanism (possibly
    > a version of EAP-NOOB),

    > There is clearly some misunderstanding about EAP-NOOB here. EAP-NOOB is
    > specifically intended for registering new IoT devices on a server (and

...

    > You clearly see a AAA server in the figures. So calling it AAA-less
    > doesn't make sense.

Thus, why it says, a *version*, but maybe it should have said "variation" of
EAP-NOOB.

I would ask for your help on getting this text correct, but it seems that
you'd rather IoT work was fragmented among many groups? 

My impression is that this makes it very difficult to involve people from
other organizations, and it also results in very uneven reviews.

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