I have only interacted with Deb in the past couple of years, but those
interactions have consistently demonstrated her integrity, fairness, and
willingness to engage with challenging but important issues.
The lazy ad-hominem attacks which have characterized recent discussions
have no place in the IETF community and reflect far more poorly on those
making them than on their intended targets.
We owe our ADs, and Deb in particular, a great deal of gratitude for the
time & energy they sacrifice to keep the IETF running.
Best,
Dennis
On 15/07/2026 19:49, Deb Cooley wrote:
For the record: I have been a Security Area Director since March
2024, that is 2 years and a couple of months.
There have been previous inquiries into my ability to perform the
duties of Security Area Director via the SSHM working group, and as
part of complaints against the TLS chairs/AD. Those have been
responded to by the IESG, the artifacts are below:
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ssh/7KRZCX_bvZWUOG50HqDg_KVT77c/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/iesg/appeals/ (see artifacts
125/126, as well as 128/129)
In addition to the artifacts above, I suggest that there might be
people for whom I have worked with that could give an opinion on my
work ethic and conduct for the last 2 plus years.
The recourse for anyone who doesn’t believe this is a sufficient
response is free to take a look at [RFC 8713, Section
7](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8713/#section-7).
Just a couple of minor points:
1. Retirement means that I don't work for NSA anymore. I earn no
salary.
2. Retired does not mean the same as 'defected'.
3. My bio is accurate see here:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Deb%20Cooley. 37+ years of service
in Cybersecurity which used to be Information Assurance, which used to
be Information Security, which used to be COMSEC.
4. If you read RFC 9151, read all of it. Section 6 and 7 have MAY
requirements which improve interoperability. Note that the draft was
published in February 2021 when Adrian Farrel was the ISE. It was
reviewed by a noteworthy set of reviewers including the late Jim Schaad.
Deb Cooley
Sec AD
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