Re: [Isms] I-D Action:draft-ietf-isms-dtls-tm-10.txt

[Sean Turner <[e-mail]>]

[e-mail] wrote:
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Integrated Security Model for SNMP Working Group of the IETF.
> 
> 
> 	Title           : Transport Layer Security (TLS) Transport Model for SNMP
> 	Author(s)       : W. Hardaker
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-isms-dtls-tm-10.txt
> 	Pages           : 63
> 	Date            : 2010-04-14
> 
> This document describes a Transport Model for the Simple Network
> Management Protocol (SNMP), that uses either the Transport Layer
> Security protocol or the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
> protocol.  The TLS and DTLS protocols provide authentication and
> privacy services for SNMP applications.  This document describes how
> the TLS Transport Model (TLSTM) implements the needed features of a
> SNMP Transport Subsystem to make this protection possible in an
> interoperable way.
> 
> This transport model is designed to meet the security and operational
> needs of network administrators.  It supports sending of SNMP
> messages over TLS/TCP and DTLS/UDP.  The TLS mode can make use of
> TCP's improved support for larger packet sizes and the DTLS mode
> provides potentially superior operation in environments where a
> connectionless (e.g.  UDP) transport is preferred.  Both TLS and DTLS
> integrate well into existing public keying infrastructures.
> 
> This document also defines a portion of the Management Information
> Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols.  In particular
> it defines objects for managing the TLS Transport Model for SNMP.
> 
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-isms-dtls-tm-10.txt
> 
> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
> 
> Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader
> implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the
> Internet-Draft.

I added this ID to the May 6th IESG telechat.  I would have added it to 
the April 22nd telechat, but there are already 20+ documents on the agenda.

spt