Re: [kitten] Adoption of draft-mccallum-kitten-krb-service-discovery?

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> Wed, 18 May 2016 05:10 UTC

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Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 01:10:06 -0400
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To: Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [kitten] Adoption of draft-mccallum-kitten-krb-service-discovery?
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On Tue, 17 May 2016, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:

> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mccallum-kitten-krb-service-discovery
> -02
>
> I'd like to propose adoption of this draft:

The chairs are tracking this document and expect it to eventually become a
working group document.  However, as I implied in our previous discussion
(off-list), there are a lot of existing WG documents that are not moving
very fast, and it seems unhealthy to keep a lot of documents around in
such a state.  It would be better to finish off (or formally abandon) some
existing documents before we start trying to take on new work.

I also noted that "adding [Kerberos] bits to the DNS always seems harder
than one expects", which seems borne out by the discussion triggered by
your message.

-Ben

P.S. If someone wanted to help clear out the pile of existing WG
documents, draft-ietf-kitten-gssapi-extensions-iana,
draft-ietf-kitten-rfc5653bis, or draft-ietf-kitten-krb-auth-indicator
would be fine places to start.