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[STDS-P1619] [P1619-3] SISWG E-MOTION 2008-03: P1619.3 PROTOCOL QUESTION BALLOT



"Shall P1619.3 require one mandatory messaging protocol and zero or more optional messaging protocols to insure interoperability between key management clients and key management servers?"

 

Optica Technologies

William Colvin

No

 

Comments:  There should be one and only one messaging protocol between key management clients and key management servers.  To have optional messaging protocols detracts from this being a standard and in effect makes it an “agreement to disagree”.  The messaging protocol must be simple enough to allow any client to acquire authorized keys. All policy decisions should be solely in the domain of the key management servers, who either provide keys to the clients or nothing.

 

Bill Colvin

Optica Technologies Incorporated

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