Yes, I noticed the same thing but assumed
it was intentional.
Its difficult to express figures in text
format sometimes.
I think it would be useful to add some
more detailed figures in that section in the future.
I’ll be happy to help out if needed
regards
Hormuzd
From: Frank Yeh Jr
[mailto:fyeh at us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006
11:43 AM
To: nea at ietf.org
Subject: [NEA] Problem Statement
Draft - correction/clarification
I believe that Figure 1 in section 6 has the IF-PV interface
arrow pointing the wrong way_ it doesn't connect anything.
|-------------|
|----------------|
| Posture |
<-------IF-PA-------> | Posture |
| Collectors |
| Validators |
| (1 ...N) | |
(1 ...N) |
|-------------|
|----------------|
| |
|
<------IF-PV-------->
| |
|-------------|
|----------------|
| Client |
<-------IF-PB-------> | Server |
| Broker | |
Broker |
|---------
---| |----------------|
| |
| |
|-------------|
<------IF-PT-------> |----------------|
| | | |
| Network |
|--------| | Network |
| Access
|----|Network |------------| Access |
| Requestor |
|Enforcer| <-IF-NAE-> | Authority |
|-------------|
|--------| |----------------|
NEA CLIENT NEA
SERVER
Figure 1: NEA
Components and Interfaces
Section 7
describes the IF-PV as:
Posture
validator interface (IF-PV): This protocol acts as a
carrier for
posture attributes between a Server broker and a
Posture
validator that is not co-located in the NEA server.
Shouldn't the
figure look like this?
|-------------|
|----------------|
| Posture |
<-------IF-PA-------> | Posture |
| Collectors |
| Validators |
| (1 ...N) | |
(1 ...N) |
|-------------|
|----------------|
| | ^
| | |
| | IF-PV
| | |
| | v
|-------------|
|----------------|
| Client |
<-------IF-PB-------> | Server |
| Broker | |
Broker |
|---------
---| |----------------|
| |
| |
|-------------|
<------IF-PT-------> |----------------|
| | | |
| Network |
|--------| | Network |
| Access
|----|Network |------------| Access |
| Requestor |
|Enforcer| <-IF-NAE-> | Authority |
|-------------|
|--------| |----------------|
NEA CLIENT NEA
SERVER
Figure 1: NEA
Components and Interfaces
Thanks,
Frank Yeh