[Ssh] Re: SSHM charter - next steps

[Mouse <[e-mail]>]

> My question remains, are you in favor of a working group?  Or no?

I wasn't the one being overtly addressed in that mail, but since
different people are answering: as an implementor (albeit a relatively
fringe implementor), there are three things I can think of offhand I'd
like to see fixed in ssh; I'm in favour of a WG if it plausibly leads
to progress on even one of them.

The three things:

(1) I'd like to see the UTF-8 botch fixed, so it's actually
implementable as specced on most Unix varants.

(2) My implementation uses a number of name@fqdn extensions.  One group
of them adds a cookie to otherwise standard requests, so a response can
be linked to the request that led to it; I'd like to see that
integrated, so my connection sharing can interoperate with others'.  I
also have a request which carries five pieces of tty state which aren't
present in the pty-req request; I'd like to see those pieces integrated
somehow.

(3) I'd like to see an interchange format defined for the private
portion of public/private key pairs, so it's feasible to move keys,
including their private portions, between implementations.

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