RE: request for agenda items

["Tim Alsop" <Tim.Alsop at CyberSafe.Ltd.UK>]

Martin,

We regularly use gsstest, and I am willing to submit our gsstest reports
for IETF consideration if required.

Thanks, Tim 

-----Original Message-----
From: kitten-bounces at lists.ietf.org
[mailto:kitten-bounces at lists.ietf.org] On Behalf Of Martin Rex
Sent: 01 July 2005 19:01
To: Sam Hartman
Cc: kitten at ietf.org
Subject: Re: request for agenda items

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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