[TLS] Response to CoI Complaints

[Deb Cooley <[e-mail]>]

For the record:  I have been a Security Area Director since March 2024,
that is 2 years and a couple of months.

There have been previous inquiries into my ability to perform the duties of
Security Area Director  via the SSHM working group, and as part of
complaints against the TLS chairs/AD.  Those have been responded to by the
IESG, the artifacts are below:

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ssh/7KRZCX_bvZWUOG50HqDg_KVT77c/

https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/iesg/appeals/ (see artifacts 125/126, as
well as 128/129)

In addition to the artifacts above, I suggest that there might be people
for whom I have worked with that could give an opinion on my work ethic and
conduct for the last 2 plus years.

The recourse for anyone who doesn’t believe this is a sufficient response
is free to take a look at [RFC 8713, Section 7](
https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8713/#section-7)

Just a couple of minor points:

1.  Retirement means that I don't work for NSA anymore.  I earn no salary.

2.  Retired does not mean the same as 'defected'.

3.  My bio is accurate see here:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Deb%20Cooley. 37+ years of service in
Cybersecurity which used to be Information Assurance, which used to be
Information Security, which used to be COMSEC.

4.  If you read RFC 9151, read all of it.  Section 6 and 7 have MAY
requirements which improve interoperability.  Note that the draft was
published in February 2021 when Adrian Farrel was the ISE.  It was reviewed
by a noteworthy set of reviewers including the late Jim Schaad.


Deb Cooley
Sec AD