On 15/07/2018 02:47, Eliot Lear wrote:
> Brian, is it your contention that 802.11 is beyond the scope of
> autonomic computing?

No, of course not. But autonomic nodes aren't supposed to connect
to any old WiFi they happen to find; that's exactly the case where
secure bootstrap needs to fail. If they connect to a network on
which there's a registrar that knows nothing about them,
it won't authorize them to join the ACP.

"The domain registrar authenticates the pledge, makes authorization
decisions,..."

In Figure 3, I guess authorization is the tiny item "[accept device?]".

BRSKI is defined in a nicely general way, but in an AN it's
the domain registrar's job to decide who's allowed in.
Actually there seems to be a glitch in the text on this.
We find:

> 5.2.  Pledge Requests Voucher from the Registrar
>    ...
>    ...The registrar performs authorization as
>    detailed in [[EDNOTE: UNRESOLVED.  See Appendix D "Pledge
>    Authorization"]]. 

but that leads nowhere that I can find. BRSKI authors, please comment.

   Brian

> 
> 
> On 14.07.18 01:34, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> On 13/07/2018 21:26, Owen Friel (ofriel) wrote:
>>> I think its more accurate to state:
>>>
>>> “What a CUSTOMER wants to avoid is a pledge joining a network where the 
>>> MASA just does the logging and does no validation, without any other means 
>>> to determine that the device is on the correct network.” E.g. I plug in a 
>>> wi-fi device and it connects to the SSID of the company on the floor below 
>>> me.
>> That is so far outside the scope of the autonomic networking infrastructure
>> application of BRSKI that I don't see why we'd even mention it. It's a case
>> that definitely needs to fail hard in the autonomic context.
>>
>> If we want to extend the scope of BRSKI to cover BYOD on insecure WiFi, I
>> think that's for some other WG.
>>
>>    Brian
>>
>>> The MASA cannot help with this unless there is complex sales channel 
>>> integration and the MASA explicitly knows in advance exactly what network 
>>> each pledge will be connecting to. A potential option is to also require 
>>> the registrar to provide some proof of ownership to the MASA in the 
>>> VoucherRequest.
>>>
>>> From: Anima <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Eliot Lear
>>> Sent: Thursday 12 July 2018 17:38
>>> To: Michael Richardson <[email protected]>; [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [Anima] Revision of scope of MASA in the BRSKI - Reg
>>>
>>>
>>> The problem is that the manufacturer doesn't have enough context to make 
>>> decisions as to which network to join.  That is the challenge.
>>>
>>> On 12.07.18 17:12, Michael Richardson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Eliot Lear <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>     > involved. What a manufacturer wants to avoid is a pledge joining a
>>>
>>>     > network where the MASA just does the logging and does no validation,
>>>
>>>     > without any other means to determine that the device is on the
>>>
>>>     > correct network. Otherwise, the pledge (we could call it the
>>>
>>>     > "station" in this context) could simply home to the wrong network,
>>>
>>>     > and even resetting the device won't get you to the right network.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't understand how the "manufacturer" can have a desire ("the pledge
>>>
>>> avoid joining a network ...") that is different from the MASA's desire.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The MASA *is* the expression manufacturer's desire.
>>>
>>> If the manufacturer has sales channel information that indicates the Pledge
>>>
>>> is on the wrong network, it should not issue a voucher.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So the situation you describe makes no sense to me.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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