> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Hildebrand [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 10:57 AM
> To: Thomas Hardjono; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [woes] Support multiple Crypto algorithms? was RE:
> Proposed charter, post-Quebec edition
> 
> On 8/9/11 2:43 PM, "Thomas Hardjono" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Its perfectly ok (and necessary for interop) for the implementers to
> > agree beforehand about which cipher(s) are must implement.
> 
> I'd phrase this "agree beforehand" as the mandatory-to-implement set of
> algorithms.  I read your original message as saying that you didn't
> think there should be *any* MTI algorithms.  If I misread, then we're
> on the same page.

Hi Joe,

Apologies if I miscommunicated -- I think we're on the same page :)

> 
> > Support for multiple
> > ciphers is a good thing. However, there is no need to call these out
> > within the JOSE specification.
> 
> The proposal on the table is for there to be a second draft which
> contains the MTI algorithms.

ok, great.


> 
> > Perhaps the chairs can simply do a WG consensus call to ask which
> > ciphers/algorithms to implement as part of the first WG deliverables.
> 
> We'd need to write that consensus down in a document so that folks who
> came along later would know what we decided.  Drafts don't *have* to be
> long and complicated. :)

Agree. Typically IETF WGs do not maintain 
strict meeting Minutes :(

So perhaps the next best thing would be for
the Charter to list the second draft (listing
the MTI ciphers/algorithms) as a WG deliverable,
with a delivery date.

/thomas/





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