Re: [pcp] PANA implementatinos to consider

[Hannes Tschofenig <[e-mail]>]

Thanks, Sam. Makes sense. 

On Sep 13, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Sam Hartman wrote:

>>>>>> "Hannes" == Hannes Tschofenig <[e-mail]> writes:
> Hi Hannes.
> At one level, I'm confused why it matters. In general within the IETF we
> accept help where we can find it.
> However your question is easy to answer so I'm happy to do so.
> 
>    Hannes> Hi Sam, I wonder why you care about PCP at all. You are
>    Hannes> neither someone who ships operating systems nor someone who
>    Hannes> provides network equipment (like a NAT or a firewall).
> 
> Hi.
> draft-ietf-pcp-authentication-00 is missing a funding acknowledgment.
> Unfortunately, for silly contractual reasons, we'll need to wait until
> the next version of the draft to add that.
> It should be obvious from the  author list of
> draft-ietf-pcp-authentication who Painless Security's client is in this
> instance.
> 
> More generally, Painless Security has worked on NAT and firewall
> implementations and has worked with OS vendors such as Debian and Ubuntu
> to maintain software in their operating systems.
> 
> We tend to be quite interested in areas where  we are funded by a client
> or where we are doing ongoing product development ourselves.