Re: [Secdispatch] [dispatch] HTTP Request Signing

Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Tue, 05 November 2019 19:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Secdispatch] [dispatch] HTTP Request Signing
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Given that DISPATCH meets in the first Monday morning slot, I think this 
plan makes the most sense. Justin (or the DISPATCH chairs) can give a 
very short description of the purpose of the proposed mechanism, and let 
interested parties know that the discussion will take place in SECDISPATCH.

/a

On 11/5/19 10:59 AM, Kathleen Moriarty wrote:
> We have the time at SecDispatch, so should I just add it 
> considering DISPATCH has a full agenda?
>
> Best regards,
> Kathleen
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 11:56 AM Justin Richer <jricher@mit.edu 
> <mailto:jricher@mit.edu>> wrote:
>
>     A number of the people involved with implementing the drafts that
>     I’d like to present are involved in IETF in different places, but
>     none for pushing this draft to date. If this work finds a home, I
>     think we’d be able to get a lot of that external community to
>     participate in whatever list ends up hosting the work.
>
>     I’m fine with presenting at only one of DISPATCH or SECDISPATCH
>     instead of both, but since this sits squarely at the intersection
>     of the two communities it might make sense for me to just
>     introduce the concept (~1 min) at whatever meeting I’m not giving
>     a full presentation at.
>
>      — Justin
>
>
>>     On Nov 4, 2019, at 3:02 PM, Mary Barnes
>>     <mary.ietf.barnes@gmail.com <mailto:mary.ietf.barnes@gmail.com>>
>>     wrote:
>>
>>     Personally, I'd rather not have the presentation twice,
>>     recognizing of course, that not everyone would be able to attend
>>     one or the other. But, we will have recordings and as is oft
>>     stated, ultimately decisions happen on mailing lists.  And, I
>>     appreciate and agree with Jeffrey not wanting feature creep in
>>     WPACK.  One objective of DISPATCH has been to ensure that work
>>     that is chartered is discrete enough to finish in a timely manner.
>>
>>     You mention other communities that are interested in this.  Will
>>     they be participating or have they participated in IETF?    It's
>>     hard for chairs to judge consensus to work on something when the
>>     communities interested in the work are not participating in
>>     IETF.  Mailing list participation is sufficient.
>>
>>     DISPATCH agenda is pretty full right now, so this would have to
>>     fall into AOB at this juncture if ADs and my WG co-chair agree
>>     that we should discuss in DISPATCH.  And, perhaps whether it gets
>>     a few minutes in SECdispatch might be informed on how it goes in
>>     DISPATCH, if we have a chance to discuss it, since you need the
>>     agreement that this is a problem IETF should solve from both areas.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Mary
>>     DISPATCH WG co-chair
>>
>>
>>     On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 5:00 PM Justin Richer <jricher@mit.edu
>>     <mailto:jricher@mit.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>         I would like to present and discuss HTTP Request signing at
>>         both the DISPATCH and SECDISPATCH meetings at IETF106 in
>>         Singapore. This I-D has been floating around for years now
>>         and has been adopted by a number of different external groups
>>         and efforts:
>>
>>         https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cavage-http-signatures
>>
>>         I’ve spoken with the authors of the draft and we’d like to
>>         find out how to bring this forward to publication within the
>>         IETF. I’m targeting both dispatch groups because this
>>         represents the intersection of both areas, and I think we’d
>>         get different perspectives from each side that we should
>>         consider.
>>
>>         There have been a number of other drafts that have approached
>>         HTTP request signing as well (I’ve written two of them
>>         myself), but none has caught on to date and none have made it
>>         to RFC. Lately, though, I’ve been seeing a lot of renewed
>>         effort in different sectors, and in particular the financial
>>         sector and cloud services, to have a general purpose HTTP
>>         message signing capability. As such, I think it’s time to
>>         push something forward.
>>
>>         I’ve reached out to the chairs for both DISPATCH and
>>         SECDISPATCH to request a presentation slot.
>>
>>         Thank you, and I’ll see you all in Singapore!
>>          — Justin
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