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
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