Re: What are we trying to do? [is this security or is it dns..]

[Edward Lewis <lewis@tislabs.com>]

We're not yet at the point that an AD trims the scope.  We are in the
free-for-all stage (find a scope).  The AD's don't formally step into
efforts that aren't WG's.  This effort hasn't established the case for a
BOF yet, much less a chartered WG.  Note that this doesn't mean that an
expert opinion from a person who happens to be an AD won't happen.

Whether or not this effort started in the security area is probably less
clear that I thought.  The KEY RR was defined under the DNSSEC WG, late of
the security area, but those discussions were inheritied by the DNSEXT WG
of a non-security (internet?) area - which is where most of the progress
was made.

As we aren't a WG, we don't belong to any area of the IETF anyway.  If we
do become a WG, I could see cases placing us in security, applications, or
perhaps another.  It all depends on the direction of the conversation.

At 2:34 PM -0500 12/28/01, Rodney Thayer wrote:
>At 12:02 PM 12/27/2001 -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
>> > My opinion is that we are trying to provide a common means for
>> > applications to distribute public keys amongst elements scattered
>> > across the (inter)network.
>>
>>a noble and useful goal.  in the ietf, this is usually in the security
>>area.
>
>...which is why, when I originally heard about this in the SSH working
>group, I thought it was already in the security area...
>
>In IETF-speak, this is usually where the AD's interrupt the conversation
>with some (hopefully but not always) declarative as to what's on-topic
>and what's off-topic.


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