Re: Fwd: [Nea] Re: use of a design team to develop requirements

[Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>]

> [Khaja] it is not the goals of this WG to produce and protocol that
> scales to the internet. This is meant to be an enterprise only solution.
> When I raised this question previously the chairs ruled, and the ADs
> have concurred, that internet wide behavior (implying ISP participation)
> is out of scope.  Enterprise behavior is the only thing we can consider.

Maybe the ADs disagree, but I don't think this flies, for several reasons:

One is that IETF has a long history of requiring that its protocols work 
at Internet scale, even if they are only intended for use within an 
enterprise network.  For instance, we require that protocols have robust 
authentication even if they're generally expected to be used only behind 
firewalls.

Another is that even if a protocol is only intended to be used on an 
enterprise network, it will necessarily be installed on large numbers of 
hosts that are occasionally plugged into other networks, and the 
security implications of this need to be examined.

Keith


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