Re: [Ietf-krb-wg] Kitten and Kerberos WG Merger - New Charter
Leif Johansson <[email protected]> Sun, 6 Jan 2013 21:37:38 +0100
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6 jan 2013 kl. 13:07 skrev Howard Chu <[email protected]>: > Leif Johansson wrote: >> >> >> 4 jan 2013 kl. 20:04 skrev Jeffrey Hutzelman <[email protected]>: >> >>> On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 12:18 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: >>> >>>>> This charter subsumes the Kerberos WG under the auspices of the kitten WG. >>>>> Therefore the following charter text contains both kitten and Kerberos WG items. >>>> >>>> I suggest to remove this paragraph. I don't see significant value in >>>> having that in the WG charter, and it seems confusing for anyone not >>>> familiar with the history. >>> >>> That was actually put in as a way of recording the history and giving >>> people not familiar with it a way to find older Kerberos-related work. >>> However, it was not the topic of a lot of wordsmithing, and I don't >>> think anyone who contributed to this proposal is wedded to that >>> language. So, if someone wants to propose alternate text... >>> >>> >>>>> KDC Model (draft-ietf-krb-wg-kdc-model) >>>> >>>> Long overdue. I have always preferred that this document shipped >>>> together with an instanciation of it, such as an LDAP schema. I based >>>> my KDC backend database on an earlier version of this draft, but the >>>> document has changed since then. Without implementations it is >>>> difficult to know whether there are flaws in the abstract model. >>> >>> It's certainly not going to ship "together with" a schema. While I've >>> heard various people speak in favor of having an LDAP schema over the >>> years, including at the last krb-wg rechartering, there doesn't seem to >>> be enough interest in actually working on it for anything to happen. >>> The model document is nearly done (in the hands of the IESG, except for >>> revisions Leif recently posted to the list on which there have _still_ >>> been no comments). It's not going to sit around and wait for additional >>> work that may never happen. > > Excuse me? Work that may never happen? > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-chu-ldap-kdc-schema-00 > > This has been waiting around for 3 years waiting for the Model document to be finalized. Naturally the schema can't be finalized before the Model. >> Forgot about that one, nice! >> Agreed > > -- > -- Howard Chu > CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com > Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ > Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/