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Re: [SPKM] Interoperability

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Tue, 31 October 2006 21:10 UTC

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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:10:20 -0600
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [SPKM] Interoperability
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:23:50PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> First, if we break interoperability, we're changing the OID.  If we're
> not sure we're maintaining interoperability we're changing the OID.

I am not sure that the draft as it stands maintains interop with the
imaginary implementations of the original SPKM-3.

Unless others can explain that it does, in fact, do this, then that
means we're changing the OID.

> RPC supports a mechanism for advertizing GSS mechanisms and so the
> cost of changing the OID is relatively low.  Servers and clients that
> want to implement both mechanisms can do so.

Indeed.

Nico
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