Re: [Rats] draft-richardson-rats-usecases-00

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Hannes Tschofenig <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > I read through your document.

    > I am confused about the mismatch between the title and the content. I
    > am also not sure about the direction it should go.

    > Currently, the document is an attempt to survey existing technologies
    > that contain attestation functionality. That’s not a use case
    > document. There is also an attempt to define terminology in the
    > document.

I agree.
I am doing the survey in order to capture the terminology used, so that we
can discuss the use cases with unambiguous terminology.

    > Are you going to change the content of the document to turn it into a
    > use case document or do you plan to change the title?

Yes, I plan to adapt the document towards this.
I'm finding that it's very difficult to determine use cases from the
different technologies, and I'm finding that surprising.  But, there have
been quite a number of comments on the document since IETF104, and I will get
the document updated in the next ten days (or earlier if the virtual interim
date is the earlier dates)

    > Doing a technology survey is useful but of course only a snapshot in
    > time because the organizations are still working on their protocols and
    > mechanisms. Additionally, the most interesting information is very hard
    > to collect (such as deployment information).

    > Doing use cases is useful if they let you identify design constraints
    > or new requirements. Getting meaningful use cases is, as I had to learn
    > the hard way myself, difficult.

My aim is to help focus the WG by trying to elucidate the commonalities and
differences, and making the scope of each technology clear.    For that we
need use cases, and I agree the document is lacking.

Thank you for being appropriately grumpy :-)

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