> On Sep 17, 2018, at 2:26 AM, Michael Welzl <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear Alissa,
> 
> As an author of the minset draft, I'd like to share our own views on your 
> comments below. These reflect both what we authors think, but also what 
> several others seem to think - so in a way, this email also summarizes views 
> from emails written by Mirja, Theresa Enghardt (doc shepherd), and Aaron Falk 
> (TAPS chair).
> 
> 
> 1) The role of minset:
> ----------------------
> In line with the charter of TAPS, draft-ietf-taps-minset describes the 
> minimum functionality of the abstract API the working group is building, not 
> any sort of compliance for implementors. In other words, it is an 
> intermediate step in the working group's design effort that the working group 
> (and charter) dictates should be published. To ensure the API design effort 
> captured the most important IETF protocol functions, we wanted to be sure the 
> working group documented and agreed on what those functions should be, thus 
> the minimum set of functions the TAPS API should implement. The API itself is 
> being developed in the standards track docs that are currently being written 
> in the wg. I would agree there should be no normative references to this 
> document and I'll work with the authors of draft-ietf-taps-interface to have 
> it removed.

Thanks, this is helpful. It might even be helpful to add a line about this 
being an “intermediate step” to the draft. Up to you. I will clear my DISCUSS.

> 
> 
> 2) QUIC:
> --------
> Based on our analysis, QUIC doesn't add any additional features to the pool 
> identified in the minset draft, so our conclusion is that no additional text 
> is needed to be sure the API is compatible with QUIC. Of course, QUIC is not 
> done and if this prediction would turn out to be wrong, we'd be talking about 
> a direct influence of the (Proposed Standard) API document ( 
> draft-ietf-taps-interface ), and perhaps draft-ietf-taps-impl, but not the 
> minset document which just made sure we have the minimum covered.

Ok. I was wondering in particular about this bit of text in Section 6, which 
seems like it could quickly go stale:

"Authentication, confidentiality protection, and integrity protection
   are identified as transport features by [RFC8095].  As currently
   deployed in the Internet, these features are generally provided by a
   protocol or layer on top of the transport protocol; no current full-
   featured standards-track transport protocol provides all of these
   transport features on its own.”

Best,
Alissa

> 
> I hope this helps. Let me know if you need any more information to remove 
> your DISCUSS on the draft.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> On Sep 12, 2018, at 9:22 PM, Alissa Cooper <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alissa Cooper has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-taps-minset-08: Discuss
> 
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> 
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> DISCUSS:
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> 
> I was wondering about why this document is going for informational rather than
> proposed standard. I see that draft-ietf-taps-interface-01 has a normative
> reference to it, so this is effectively setting up a downref situation. That
> isn't necessarily a problem, but if the point is for this document to 
> recommend
> an actual minimal set of transport services to be supported and exposed via 
> the
> API specified in draft-ietf-taps-interface and other APIs, shouldn't that set
> be normative?
> 
> 
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> COMMENT:
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> 
> It seems like this document will be in need of updating once QUIC is 
> published.
> Is the plan to publish this now and then publish an update next year? Why is
> that preferable to waiting and just publishing once?
> 

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