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Re: [secdir] secdir review draft-iab-crypto-alg-agility-06 (almost done)

Leif Johansson <leifj@sunet.se> Wed, 05 August 2015 11:25 UTC

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On 2015-08-04 17:40, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> On 4 Aug 2015, at 5:29, Leif Johansson wrote:
> 
>> To some extent I think you are right but I'm not sure it is possible to
>> do much better in a general document. I think you are looking for a
>> "UTA-style BCP" with general applicability to algorithm selection and
>> agility and I'm not sure that is possible.
> 
> It may not be possible, but that's what this draft is trying to do (but,

I guess I didn't read it that way. My understanding is that the draft
was trying to describe the motivations and challenges involved in
algoritm agility and provide some basic guidance along the way.

I think it does a decent job at this.

Is it possible to say more in a document scoped to specific audiences?

Possibly.

Why not write those documents too?

> as Hannes points out, without saying so). That is, without a tight
> scoping of who the document is meant for, it naturally has been pulled
> in different directions for different audiences without being explicit.
> UTA had the same problem with it's initial documents, and that is why it
> took so long to finish.

By IETF standards the UTA documents got done pretty quickly.



	Cheers Leif

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