BoF slot applied for...

[Edward Lewis <lewis@tislabs.com>]

Just to let y'all know, I've applied for a BoF slot in Minneapolis.  I've
asked for 2 hours and room for 80-100 folks.  Included in the request was
the following "charter-like" statement that Jakob and I generated.  Note
that the statement isn't binding - it is a target for comments during the
BoF - even if the words sound "definitive."

>Secure Internet Key Distribution (SIKED)
>
>This effort has a goal of understanding and possibly defining a protocol or
>set of practices for supplying public keys to elements of other protocols.
>The rationale for this goal is to enable security-enhancements of existing
>protocols.  Keying material must be dynamically refreshed to maintain
>secure states, one of the stumbling blocks in making security work is the
>distribution and refresh of this material.
>
>The general problem of key management is beyond the scope of this effort.
>For example, the generation and derivation of keys are beyond scope, as
>well as the encoding of keys, whether raw or in certificates, is beyond the
>scope of this effort.  Determing a generic approach to trust is also out of
>scope.  The effort is strictly looking at how key distribution can be made to
>scale on the Internet.
>
>The effort will begin with a few distinct efforts, with the early goal of a
>requirements document.  The first actions of the effort are to understand
>the various protocols that can benefit from a distribution of keys, and how
>this interacts with the each protocol as the protocol is currently defined.
>In addition, a few proposed approaches will be explored, as well as
>documentation of limitations on proposed mechanisms.
>
>There is no guarantee that there is one and only one approach to key
>distribution.  There are already divergent approaches and this effort is
>not going to argue with them.
>
>Documents (proposed assignments, not all will be taken up, I believe):
>>Definitions and Scenarios - Simon
>>Survey of Applications Using Keys - Wes
>>Appkey: A DNS-based approach - Jakob
>>RESCAP-based approach - Keith
>>DNS Considerations: Lessons Learned in the DNS WGs - Ed
>>SSH Key Considerations - Rodney
>
>Agenda: Introduction, overview of the docs above, and a discussion on
>refining a charter proposal.

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Edward Lewis                                                NAI Labs
Phone: +1 443-259-2352                      Email: lewis@tislabs.com

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