Yes, just for the JWK encoding (so, the Wei25519 curve, IIUC).

Moving that IANA registration from the LWIG doc to here would keep us from
blocking on that document, yes -- I forgot that it was only in "AD
Evaluation" state and thought it was further along.

-Ben

On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 06:32:04PM +0000, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote:
> Oh it’s the JWK encoding, right?
> 
> Would we speed things up if we just imported the IANA section from the LWIG 
> draft?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pascal
> 
> > Le 6 févr. 2020 à 19:09, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <[email protected]> a 
> > écrit :
> > 
> > Hello Benjamin
> > 
> > 
> >> "backward compatibility with" is easy to misparse, so maybe add a comma, or
> >> go with "backward compatibility but adds the capability"?
> > 
> >>> We're getting there.  I snipped the places were we appear to have 
> >>> converged.
> >>> 
> >>> Please let me know if the DISCUSS is now solved (we removed all ambiguity
> >> on the crypto-ID and forced that a key is employed uniquely for the 
> >> purpose of
> >> this draft and for one crypto-ID).
> >> 
> >> I think the technical aspects are all resolved and there just remains the 
> >> tiniest
> >> of process nits.  Specifically, in order to use some of the algorithms we 
> >> define
> >> in the protocol we define, we rely on the IANA codepoints currently 
> >> requested
> >> to be registered by [CURVE-REPRESENTATIONS].
> >> So we have a normative dependency on those registrations being made, but
> >> right now [CURVE-REPRESENTATIONS] is listed as only an informative
> >> reference, so there's not anything that will enforce the sequencing of
> >> publication.  It's probably easiest to promote that reference to being 
> >> normative
> >> and make a note (either near Table 2 or in the IANA
> >> considerations) that we rely on the codepoints being registered by [CURVE-
> >> REPRESENTATIONS].
> >> 
> >> Sorry to be so picky!
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> > I'm happy to do the changes though it will delay a spec that 802.11 is 
> > waiting for.
> > But I fail to understand why we depend on a COSE or a JOSE registry to 
> > compute our signature.
> > 
> > What do I miss?
> > 
> > 
> >>> But I guess it does not hurt to clarify a little bit. Maybe by
> >>> changing the first paragraph of section 3 as "
> >>>   Section 5.3 of [RFC8505] introduces the ROVR that is used to detect
> >>>   and reject duplicate registrations in the DAD process.  The ROVR is a
> >>>   generic object that is designed for backward compatibility with the
> >> 
> >> "backward compatibility with" is easy to misparse, so maybe add a comma, or
> >> go with "backward compatibility but adds the capability"?
> > 
> > I favor the comma over the "but" since it is not antagonistic (maybe my 
> > French?).
> > What about
> > 
> > "
> >   Section 5.3 of [RFC8505] introduces the ROVR that is used to detect
> >   and reject duplicate registrations in the DAD process.  The ROVR is a
> >   generic object that is designed for both backward compatibility and
> >   the capability to introduce new computation methods in the future.
> > "
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> > : )
> > 
> > Pascal
> >> 
> >>>   capability to introduce new computation methods in the future.  Using
> >>>   a Crypto-ID per this specification is the RECOMMENDED method.
> >>>   Section 7.3 discusses collisions when heterogeneous methods to
> >>>   compute the ROVR field coexist inside a same network.
> >>> "
> >>> Is that readable?
> >>> 
> >>> I'll publish this with the changes suggested by Roman
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks a million!
> >>> 
> >>> Pascal
> >> 
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