Re: [kitten] taking on new work?

[Benjamin Kaduk <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 02:10:35PM -0500, Nico Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 11:55:50PM -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> 
> There's really a very large amount of work to do in KITTEN WG, but a
> very small amount of energy.  The three primary implementors, and
> several additional derivative implementors, all have different agendas
> and insufficient energy for reviewing each others' work early on.

Yes, there's a lot of work to do.

> I think a lot of the above, and others not on that list, could be done
> outside the IETF using IANA registries to avoid collisions and provide a
> modicum of documentation.  We could then submit I-Ds and publish RFCs
> after we gain deployment experience.
> 
> > What do people currently feel are the top one or two highest
> > priority items for the WG to consider?
> 
> For me the highest priority areas would be:
> 
>  - AEAD (i.e., performance)
> 
>  - krb5-extra-rt (i.e., better user experience)
> 
>  - GSS naming attributes (first, because I need them, and secondly
>    because I see others adding features that should be added as name
>    attributes, but not doing it as name attributes, and that complicates
>    my universe because I really want to pass around NAMEs or exported
>    composite name tokens rather than security contexts)
> 
>  - We actually need to fix the Java bindings of GSS to say that GSSName
>    implements Principal (that's a long story)

but maybe you could narrow it down to a top two?

-Ben