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

[Nathaniel McCallum <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 01:10 -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2016, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> 
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mccallum-kitten-krb-service-disco
> very
> > -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.

Understandable. However, a timeline would also be helpful. This draft
is already more than a year old and has only seen minor changes.

> 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.

Well, I take this discussion as just a rehash of the conversations that
happened last year; just with new interlocutors. None of the input
variables have changed and we are, I think, ending up with exactly the
same conclusions.

> 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.

I have requested WGLC for draft-ietf-kitten-krb-auth-indicator.