Re: [Rats] Call for adoption (after draft rename) for Yang module draft

Laurence Lundblade <lgl@island-resort.com> Tue, 12 November 2019 17:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Rats] Call for adoption (after draft rename) for Yang module draft
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> On Nov 12, 2019, at 12:22 AM, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-11-12 3:52 a.m., Laurence Lundblade wrote:
>> One more note on this. It seems wrong-headed to try express claims in
>> YANG. To do that we’d need to invent a YANG signing standard (YOSE?).
>> Seems like YANG should be thought of as RPC / conveyance / transport
>> here, not as a way to format a signed attestation token.
> 
> YANG is an information model (think ASN.1). 
> It is for humans and for code generators, protocol inspectors, etc, it
> is never bits on the wire.
> It needs to be expressed somehow (XML, JSON, CBOR), which is akin to
> BER/DER.
> XML, JSON and CBOR all have signature standards (maybe more than one).
> A specific claim could well have a complex set of information that it
> conveys and that could be expressed in YANG, but I find it difficult to
> imagine such a thing.
> 

Got that one totally wrong. I even knew everything you describe about YANG.

I still think it is better if we just stick to EAT / CWT / JWT claims described with CDDL as the way we define claims in RATS, except for a few TPM-specific claims. 

LL