Re: KITTEN: IETF 75 - 76

Michael B Allen <miallen@ioplex.com> Tue, 01 September 2009 17:12 UTC

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On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:13:28 +0200
Leif Johansson <leifj@mnt.se> wrote:

> > >    2. listing/iterating credentials
> > >    3. exporting/importing credentials
> >
> > I think Leif has expressed interest in (3) before.
> 
> That was exporting unfinished contexts actually - slightly different.
> 
> >
> > >    4. error message reporting
> > >    5. asynchronous calls
> >
> > The last 2 are generally required for use by modern applications.
> 
> hmm, is asynchronous calls related to exportable contexts perhaps...?

Exactly they are. To implement async (properly) you would need to be able to serialize a context at any step.

Mike

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