Re: [kitten] Review of draft-ietf-kitten-krb-service-discovery-00

Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> Thu, 23 March 2017 17:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [kitten] Review of draft-ietf-kitten-krb-service-discovery-00
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On 03/21/2017 04:16 PM, Henry B (Hank) Hotz, CISSP wrote:
> Mildly disagree. 
> 
> Mainly because there is RFC 6860.

I think Hank meant RFC 6880 (KDC Information Model), to answer Jeffrey
Altman's question.

I will argue that in complexity, a discovery mechanism is small, an
information model is medium, and an administrative protocol is large.  I
argued that the URI discovery draft creates:

  [discovery] -> <empty void of no admin protocol>

Adding RFC 6860 into the mix just changes the picture to:

  [disc] -> <empty void of no admin protocol> -> [info model]

They don't connect up, and the missing piece is much larger than the
pieces on either side.  As there is no indication that a complete
picture is forthcoming, I believe that any DNS discovery protocol for
the implementation-specific admin service should also be considered
implementation-specific.