Re: [OPSEC] The plan... / adoption of draft-bhatia-manral-igp-crypto-requirements-04

[Joel Jaeggli <[e-mail]>]

Thanks,

that's an awesome offer of help.

Alfred � wrote:
> At Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:13:49 +0530, Glen Kent wrote:
> 
>>> ...
>>>
>>> draft-bhatia-manral-igp-crypto-requirements-04 - test for inclusion as a
>>>  wg document
>>>
>>> Document can be reviewed here:
>>>
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bhatia-manral-igp-crypto-requirements-04
>>>
>> I firmly believe that we need such a document and fully support this.
>>
>> Glen
> 
> +1
> 
> 
> I had reviewed all three of the "more recent" RFCs referred to in
> that synoptical draft, and I share the opinion that such synopsis
> and evaluation document gives very useful guidance.
> I commit to perform a detailed review of the draft -- but this will
> certainly take me some time again, perhaps late in January.
> 
> 
> I'd also like to draw the group's attention to a short individual
> draft originating from DNSEXT and DNSOP,
>   http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ogud-iana-protocol-maintenance-words-02
> that aims at establishing schematic keywords (a la RFC 2119) for use
> in IANA registry to indicate maintenance/support levels (as seen by the
> IETF/IESG) of protocol options, in particular cryptographic algorithms.
> One objective is to establish a more lightweight and uniform method
> to indicate and maintain implementation requirements.
> 
> This efforts is somehow related to the above draft and seems to be
> very useful from an operational perspective, and I'd like to encourage
> you to review and support this draft; publication already is requested;
> Russ Housley is shepherding the document (GEN area, lacking a wg, needs
> a couple of drafts to justify its persistence :-) ) and I expect IETF LC
> soon.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
>   Alfred H�nes.
>