On 03/31/2016 11:20 AM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> just think about the mentioned JPAKE extension: what type of deployment
> can you expect? It is something that Thread decided to use. Will Thread,
> as a mesh networking technology, be successful and widely be deployed?
> We don't know yet but if it becomes a technology of choice for use with
> IEEE 802.15.4 then it will be fairly widely used in the IoT sector. I am
> sure the authors of the Thread specifications (and the members of the
> Thread consortium) expect their stuff to be widely used (in IoT -- not
> on the Web).

Well, for JPAKE in particular, my thoughts focus on my perception that
PAKE of any form is not really central to what TLS does.  Given that, I
personally would not advocate for a 'Y' for it, even knowing that it
might see wide use in IoT.

> Is this something that is good enough for this group? Web guys will
> hardly care about it. A large part of the TLS group is focused on the
> Web use only (at least that's my impression).
>
> From the descriptions provided by Sean I don't know whether this is
> something that would be a "Y" blessing or not. This is what I call
> "sounds nice but ...".
>

Well, I would expect the authors to put the 'Y' in their IANA
considerations text and see if anyone complained during the last calls. 
I further expect that some of the web-centric folks on this list would
complain and probably get the 'Y' removed, but I am not seeing why this
is problematic.

-Ben

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