Can you help me out

On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 11:57 AM Esko Dijk <esko.dijk=
[email protected]> wrote:

> Getting back to this topic - I have edits now on a branch where I try to
> apply the shepherd's review suggestions and make it far more clear what of
> RFC 8995 and RFC 9148 is updated. In the sense of "we expect new
> implementers of 8995 or 9148 to implement that even if they don't want
> cBRSKI".
>
> While doing this, I wondered if it's actually worth it to port back
> certain changes to EST-coaps. (Hence in 'To:' of this mail - the ACE WG) It
> will make RFC 9148 a bit more complex - there's the base text and readers
> have to look at a new RFC that updates parts by inserting text into it at
> various places.
>
> An alternative is that in the future someone makes an 9148-bis that scoops
> up these changes from cBRSKI?
>
>
> One example is the use of the new multipart-core Content-Format (62) to
> carry certificates instead of application/pkcs7-mime; smime-type=certs-only
> (287) ->  I do think using 62 is much easier than 287. But should we
> enforce an EST-coaps server always to support this content-format? Maybe
> only cBRSKI devices will ever use it? Any ACE WG feedback is welcome here :)
>
>
> Current draft commit is here:
> https://github.com/anima-wg/constrained-voucher/commit/a850774dd78a0dbd70c20b059fd588bc3a6753ab
>
>
> > More words do not always help.
> > I think that this is pretty niche.
> > Search engines and LLMs seem to know what BRSKI-EST, so leave it alone.
>
> I kept these names BRSKI-EST and BRSKI-MASA by the way - RFC 8995 also
> defines these clearly, so reusing is the best way.
>
>
> Esko
>
>
> On 6/10/26 21:42, Michael Richardson wrote:
>
> Esko Dijk <[email protected]> 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>     > Thanks for the feedback. It looks like the draft is struggling between 
> the
>     > viewpoints of "cBRSKI is a new protocol based on BRSKI" vs "cBRSKI 
> equals
>     > BRSKI and is a variant on it".
>
> In general, I have used and pushed others to use the
> draft-kuehlewind-rswg-updates-tag stuff, even though a few had small problems
> with it that kept it stagnating.
> RFC9914 got through with amends/extends, although there were some bumps.
>
>     > cBRSKI is an extension of BRSKI (without impacting existing 
> implementations),
>     > however the document also does provide some normative updates to 
> BRSKI/8995
>     > which might impact existing implementations in case they weren't doing 
> these
>     > things right.
>
>     > The namings "BRSKI-EST" and "BRSKI-MASA" are used to divide all protocol
>     > interactions into 2 groups. This way of dividing would conceptually 
> hold for
>     > cBRSKI, but also for existing BRSKI (8995).
>
>     > An alternate way to summarize this very shortly would be like this:
>
>     > cBRSKI = cBRSKI-EST + cBRSKI-MASA
>
>     > BRSKI = BRSKI-EST + BRSKI-MASA
>
>     > This is probably confusing as well, because it uses another definition 
> for
>     > these terms. The key thing I think is that "BRSKI-EST" as used now in 
> the
>     > draft is a way to say "The Pledge-to-Registrar interactions of any 
> BRSKI type
>     > protocol (including 8995 and cBRSKI and possible others)".
>
> Yes.
> The BRSKI-MASA side of things is being extended.
> I'd have to look again if there was anything on that side that gets amended.
>
> cBRSKI-EST is clearly extending RFC9148 by adding the new resources.
> I think we are also **amending** it with draft-ietf-core-uri-path-abbrev.
>
>     > Maybe we should call it "Pledge-to-Registrar Scope" or 
> "Pledge-to-Registrar
>     > Leg" or so instead of BRSKI-EST.
>
> More words do not always help.
> I think that this is pretty niche.
> Search engines and LLMs seem to know what BRSKI-EST, so leave it alone.
>
> --
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