comedia-tls iana considerations (was Re: [MMUSIC] Re: Progressing/Resolving the IESG Review of the BFCP specs)

Allison,

[cc'ing Jonathan Lennox, to ensure this doesn't get lost]

To confirm: you're proposing an update to comedia-tls IANA  
considerations, not to sdp-bfcp?

Colin

On 12 Dec 2005, at 20:49, Allison Mankin wrote:
> Thanks to Russ and Ted for the prompt re-review of the BFCP documents.
>
> Russ wrote:
>> This document depends on the fingerprint Attribute definition in
>> [10], which is draft-ietf-mmusic-comedia-tls-05.  The definition of
>> the fingerprint attribute includes:
>
>     hash-func              =  "sha-1" / "sha-224" / "sha-256" /
>                               "sha-384" / "sha-512" /
>                               "md5" / "md2" / token
>                               ; Additional hash functions can only  
> come
>                               ; from updates to RFC 3279
>
>> RFC 3279 does not define the short strings used here.  RFC 3279
>> provides ASN.1 object identifiers, which are not suitable
>> here.  draft-ietf-mmusic-comedia-tls needs to say how these
>> identifiers will be assigned.  Will IANA maintain a registry?
>
> Good point.  I'll note to the WG that Russ also sent this to the IESG
> as a Last Call comment on the document.
>
> There are some instances when attribute values are registered in IANA,
> not just the att-field.  One that is comparable is the key management
> protocol identifier from draft-ietf-mmusic-kmgmt-ext.
>
> So a suggestion is to add to the IANA Considerations a crisp new
> sub-registry for the hash-func values in the fingerprint attribute.
> Its rules for registration can be that new identifiers are
> permitted only for hash functions found in RFC 3279 or updates
> of RFC 3279.
>
> Does the editor want to propose some IANA Considerations text?
>
> Allison (wearing the hat of an AD shepherd for comedia-tls)
>
>
>
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