my take on this debate is that there is much more to do _not in the protocols specifications_ than enhancing what our protocol specs. Deployment, implementations, etc... shall be more targetted to be enhanced. Therefore I agree with your idea. And opensource is just one market.
Marc. Le 2013-09-10 à 15:02, Hannes Tschofenig <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi all, > > as I replied to Dave about the scope of the discussions at the next IETF > meeting I was wondering about the following issue. > > Bruce Schneier asked the IETF for help and, as we have noticed in the > discussions there are certain limits to what we can do in the IETF (as a > standardization body). > > The wider Internet community, however, has somewhat different options and we > have in other cases reached out to that community to impact the deployment of > Internet technologies. A recent example is the IPv6 day. > > Why should we turn around and ask the Internet community to help us out with > some of the issues we cannot solve alone, such as those related to the > deployment of various security extensions. > > I am sure many open source developers are at this moment trying to figure out > what they should be improving but they may not have the same level of > expertise as we have. > > Needless to say that we first have to figure out what we want to ask for and > this requires some investigation in what is currently available (like Yaron > did for S/MIME and Jim Gettys did for his DNSSEC case). > > What do you think? > > Ciao > Hannes > _______________________________________________ > perpass mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
