Re: [sasl] SASL and KITTEN-WG Merger

[Nicolas Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 05:13:33PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Eliot Lear <[e-mail]> writes:
> > I find it hard to have this discussion without understanding what the
> > new charter would be.  Is there a pointer somewhere?  We had
> > discussions relating to our SAML/OpenID SASL drafts being handled by
> > the new group, but I don't know what would be in scope.
> 
> To me, the SAML/OpenID mechanisms are perhaps the most important work
> item for a new working group, so I would be disappointed if it is not
> mentioned in the charter.

I don't care if the work Eliot mentions goes in this WG or a separate
WG as long as the work gets done :)

To start, the proposal to merge these two WGs is fairly straightforward
since merging the two charters presents only one minor conflict and
since both the GSS-API and SASL have been converging to a large degree.
The one minor conflict is that KITTEN was not chartered to work on
mechanisms, but SASL did do work on mechanisms (SCRAM, MD5-DIGEST, ...).
I think that is easy to resolve: let the new WG work on mechanisms in
general, or else list the kinds of mechanisms that the new WG may work
on, or, if we think we don't need any new mechanisms, then don't allow
the new WG to work on any.

Nico
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