Re: request for agenda items

[Martin Rex <martin.rex at sap.com>]

Sam Hartman wrote:
> 
> I actually suspect Martin may well already have sufficient data to
> meet the interop requirements for draft standard.  I don't know if he
> would be willing to share that data with us or whether his
> confidentiality agreements would allow him to do so.

As you mention it, it is actually surprising that with most
vendors that asked for interoperability certification, they
downloaded and used gsstest and sent me the output for review and
comment long before they signed a formal certification agreement
(because that comes with a cost).

There is, of course, the expectation of privacy of those Email
discussions as well as the general confidentiality agreement on
work-related issues with my employer.


Because of the procedure that we use for certification (there
is also a test plan how to verify interoperability with our
real application, not just gsstest, and we have a department with
several offices worldwide which performs the real certification
procedure when the vendor thinks he's ready, based on the
test-plan, gsstest, and my review/comments on the output of gsstest).
Myself, I have no hands-on experience with most of the gssapi mechanisms
that we certified for interoperability with our application, i only
know what gsstest told me about their behaviour and characteristics.


It should be OK if I sent Emails to the developers
who worked on the interoperability certification and
ask them whether they would be willing to participate
official interoperability testing for the IETF purpose
to advance the GSS-API spec to draft standard.

Some of the developers may have changed jobs/companies meanwhile
and their Email addresses no longer work, and most of them have
probably never particiated an IETF activity...


But in order to get participation, we should have a plan how
this is going to done -- what those developers/companies
would have to do in order to help us.

-Martin


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