Re: [RPSEC] about the charter and work items

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Russ White wrote:

>> Russ said that he was going to check about the status of charter
>> changes.  I'd like also to mention one possible additional work
>> item.  At the mike at the last IETF, I mentioned taking on the
>> draft that looks at damage if MD5 is broken.  The response was that
>> this was probably the OSPF vulnerability analysis mentioned in the
>> slides.  (Unfortunately, this comment was too small to make it to
>> the minutes, so I'm working off memory here.)
>>
>> But I was speaking of draft-manral-rpsec-existing-crypto-02.txt,
>> not the recently announced draft-ietf-rpsec-ospf-vuln-02.txt
>>
>> I believe that there is value in looking at the damage to various
>> protocols that use keyed MD5 as an authentication mechanism - as an
>> impetus to change and as a warning to operators while MD5 is still
>> used.  So I'm in favor of taking on the Manral draft.

I agree the Manral draft appears relevant, however, I'm not sure your
characterization of it's thrust is accurate.

The OSPF vulnerability draft is already a WG document.

As for presentation ideas for Montreal, bring 'em on.

Tony

> I've been getting the ospf vulnerability draft and the existing
> crypto drafts mixed up--how about if we ask both to be presented in
> Montreal, and then think about (take a hum about) taking them on as
> WG items? I think we might have already covered this space before
> (in terms of taking them on as WG items), but it might be good to do
> a level set of where we are, and what we need to work on.
>
> :-)
>
> Russ
>
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