I can remove the text entirely, since we don't seem to agree on the details. 
Would that be acceptable? 

/Ludwig 

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---- Carsten Bormann wrote ----

>How do we get this done before Monday’s I-D deadline?
>
>On 2021-07-06, at 08:22, Ludwig Seitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Francesca, Carsten,
>> 
>> Sorry but I do not like what you did in the first sentence. Combining 
>> profiles does not necessarily equate to creating a new one, and I still 
>> don't see why we should needlessly request that it be so.
>
>The devil is in the details.  If we have pairs profiles that combine, the 
>component profiles should say so and say how.
>
>> Given an example use case where a client talks dtls-profile to the AS and 
>> gets token and parameters for an oscore-profile back for the client-RS leg, 
>> why should there be a need for a new profile to support this?
>
>Because the interaction e.g. with the DTLS and OSCORE/LAKE security setup has 
>details that need to be covered in the component profiles.
>
>> I also do not like that you removed the requirement to design profiles so 
>> that the security for the different legs of the communication (C-AS, C-RS, 
>> RS-AS) stands on its own.
>
>Some of the security can stand on its own, but the overall security derives 
>from the properties of the legs combining.
>
>> What could happen now is that someone designs clever protocol foo that has a 
>> dependency between the C-AS and the C-RS communication for its security, and 
>> thus breaks when it is used on only one leg of this communication. I don't 
>> think you need to know all possible future profiles to design yours to be 
>> secure in that way. Note that the framework puts requirements on the 
>> security of future profiles, so you can assume e.g., that communication will 
>> be secure.
>
>We may be better off writing a separate document that explains how to exactly 
>do this mixing-and-matching.  
>
>I’d like to hear from others how they see this issue.
>
>Grüße, Carsten
>
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