Re: [Iotops] New Version Notification for draft-sweet-iot-acme-01.txt

[Behcet Sarikaya <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 11:50 AM Michael Sweet <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Behcet,
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> > On Apr 15, 2022, at 11:13 AM, Behcet Sarikaya <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
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> > Hi Michael,
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> > I don't understand why wireless cable modem is an IoT device but lights,
> appliances at home are not IoT devices and ACME doesn't seem to apply to
> them?
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> Sorry, did I say that?
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> I do know that the CoRE WG is working on supporting constrained
> environments (lights, switches, etc.) which might not have the resources
> for ACME, but nothing in my draft would exclude them.  Most appliances I
> have experience with manage their own Internet connection (typically setup
> via a mobile app) that can do ACME.  Switches and lights typically use the
> Zigbee protocol and depend on a bridge device to provide Internet access,
> and the bridge device can do ACME.
>
> The focus of my draft is just to define the requirements for a local ACME
> server, how to discover it, and how to use it to provide a higher level of
> trust for IoT devices.
>
>
Yes, this is what I understood. But I think the example or use case you
chose defeats it.
Why would I need a certificate of the wireless cable model. just get the IP
address and use it.
So my suggestion is to revise the draft to better keep the focus like you
said above and explain it with a better example.

Behcet

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