Re: [secdir] What and who is SecDir?

Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> Fri, 15 April 2011 18:31 UTC

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To: Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com>
Cc: Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>, "secdir@ietf.org" <secdir@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [secdir] What and who is SecDir?
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On Apr 15, 2011, at 2:02 06PM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> writes:
> 
>> For my part, I certainly think, Nico, that you do still belong here.
>> I'd hate to see people leave this directorate just because they no
>> longer chair any sec-area WGs.  That we don't always agree, as a
> 
> If that were the case I'd have left the directorate a while ago, and a
> number of current members would never have been on it (because they have
> not been chairs of security-area working groups).  I don't think that
> having a blue dot is a requirement to be on the sec-dir (although I
> think that the inverse is true, having a blue dot (in the security area)
> should require you to join sec-dir.

As the former SEC AD who set up the current structure, you're quite right.
I (re)started it as a group of people whom I thought could contribute to
security in IETF protocols, and shortly thereafter (I forget on whose
suggestion) added the SEC WG chairs.

		--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

[secdir] What and who is SecDir? Barry Leiba
Re: [secdir] What and who is SecDir? Stephen Farrell
Re: [secdir] What and who is SecDir? Derek Atkins
Re: [secdir] What and who is SecDir? Steven Bellovin
Re: [secdir] What and who is SecDir? Tobias Gondrom
Re: [secdir] What and who is SecDir? Glen Zorn