RE: [TLS] Comments on draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07

[<Pasi.Eronen at nokia.com>]

Dean Anderson wrote:

> On Wed, 30 May 2007, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > Dean, this is an excellent idea. Anyone who wants to including you
> > can discuss alternatives to the technology. The availability of
> > other ways to do this--particularly when combined with information
> > about whether people are willing to do the necessary work to write
> > up and implement these alternatives--would be great input to the
> > IESG. I'd appreciate anything you can do in this regard.
> 
> To what working group should I take this work to?  Not TLS, it 
> hasn't agreed (has affirmatively refused) to take on this work.

Dean: as you well know, most WG documents start as individual
Internet-Drafts. This way, the WG has something concrete to read 
when considering whether to take on the work as WG item or not.

Currently, no such draft exists. If, however, someone would write 
such a draft, and ask the TLS WG to consider adopting it as WG 
item, we would certainly consider it. Or yet in other words: 
there certainly is *NO* blanket decision to refuse all work
in this area.

<snip>
> No working group will consider conducting this work.

Let's not forget that *all* work in IETF is done by people,
not working groups. If nobody cares about this topic enough to 
actually write a document and drive it forward, the question 
of whether it should be WG item or not doesn't really apply.

Best regards,
Pasi

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