Re: [kitten] Éric Vyncke's Abstain on draft-ietf-kitten-krb-spake-preauth-11: (with COMMENT)

[Greg Hudson <[e-mail]>]

On 1/17/24 05:39, Éric Vyncke via Datatracker wrote:
> ## Section 1.2
> 
> `this pre-authentication mechanism`, which one is this ? I guess the Kerberos
> one but it may be worth being clear on "this".

The ID under consideration is wholly devoted to defining a new Kerberos 
pre-authentication mechanism, and that new mechanism is the referent of 
"this pre-authentication mechanism".

The draft currently uses that phrase six times.  I will change each use 
to "the SPAKE pre-authentication mechanism", _except_ for this first 
one, because the resulting sentence would be awkward: "SPAKE was 
selected for the SPAKE pre-authentication mechanism for the following 
properties".  However, I will change "SPAKE was selected" to "SPAKE is 
selected" to make it clear that the sentence is not a historical statement.

(While considering this comment, I noticed that the ID title was just 
"SPAKE pre-authentication".  I will change it to "Kerberos SPAKE 
Pre-Authentication".)

> ## Section 1.3
> 
> Suggest to expand "OTP" at first use.

It's only used the once, so I will expand it to "One-Time Password" and 
dispense with the acronym.