Re: [Pppext] Charter update

James Carlson <carlsonj@workingcode.com> Thu, 21 May 2009 12:42 UTC

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[Sorry if this message results in duplicates; mailman seems to dislike
the Sun version of me for some reason.]

William Allen Simpson writes:
> Seems OK, other than "not expected to create new specifications".

I think Jari Arkko wants the charter to match up better with reality.

> How about changing to: "... new specifications, other than replacing or
> updating authentication, confidentiality, and improved key management
> specifications. If a need for other additional work arises, ...."

Won't most of that work go on in the EAP wg?  Would we really want to
extend CHAP?

> Another thing that group probably ought to discuss is formally retiring
> some of the ancient Proposed work as Historic.

True.

> Admittedly, we gave up on advancing things like IPCP, as IPv4 was supposedly
> ready to be replaced (for the past 15 years). Ha!

:-/

If someone wanted to put the work into advancing 1332 or one of the
other old documents, I'd certainly be supportive.

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj@workingcode.com>