> As Warren asked us to check the option of combining both drafts, 
> I'm not sure if a general vote for one draft is the best way forward.
> 
> I would appreciate if all interested parties (incl Tom and David) 
> could indicate their preference in the following 3 questions:
> 
> 1. Should the protocols be described
> a) as "diff" to the previous protocols like done in draft-hmac, or
> b) completely and based on a decription of a generic hmac-based 
>    authentication protocol, as done in draft-hartman?

a. as "diff" 

> 2. Should the protocols be based on complete or truncated HMACs?

truncated

> 3. Which (sub)set of protocols (hash function, MAC length) should be selected?

usmHMAC192SHA256AuthProtocol and usmHMAC384SHA512AuthProtocol.

I don't have a strong opinion on this, I only pick these 2 based on
comments from Wes and Uri who both understand security better than I do.

   Wes> I'm not entirely convinced that a 256bit truncation is better than a
   Wes> 384 bit truncation, so my preference would be to include just two
   Wes> algorithms because I don't think they're all needed and will just make
   Wes> things more confusing.  So I'd pick the best two of the 6 and go with
   Wes> them, for which my preference would be:
   Wes> 1)  MUST: usmHMAC192SHA256AuthProtocol
   Wes>   SHOULD: usmHMAC384SHA512AuthProtocol
   Wes> 2)  MUST: usmHMAC192SHA256AuthProtocol
   Wes>   SHOULD: usmHMAC256SHA512AuthProtocol

   Uri> Can we have mandatory-to-implement in an "optional" RFC? Assuming the
   Uri> answer is yes, I'd recommend:
   Uri> For those who implement this RFC, usmHMAC192SHA256AuthProtocol is MUST,
   Uri> usmHMAC384SHA512AuthProtocol is SHOULD, everything else is MAY.


-David Reid

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