Re: Proposal for revised charter

I realize that I'm a bit late, but still...

I would like to propose two work items that I believe fall within MOBIKE's
charter.

1. "Secure beacon": a secure way for a mobile client to determine whether it
is inside or outside of the trusted network. In many cases, depending on
network topology and local security policy, you might want to suspend IPsec
once "inside the network". There are now similar solutions being discussed
in the Mobile-IP+IPsec context, but a solution that's independent of Mobile
IP would be preferable.

2. Short-term credentials assigned by one gateway, to allow a client to
connect to another gateway without performing full EAP-based authentication
(and entering a password). Although the need to connect to multiple IPsec
gateways is not limited to the mobility case, it is amplified by mobility.
For example, some of the gateways may not be accessible through different
access methods, e.g. cellular/GPRS.

I (and Check Point) obviously commit to work on these items if there is
interest.

Paul and Russ, I'd like to request a week to allow the group to support
these proposals (or shoot them, anything is better than silence). Following
that, we can reconsider group shut down.

Thanks,
	Yaron

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Hoffman [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, April 7, 2006 18:54
To: [email protected]
Cc: Russ Housley
Subject: Re: [Mobike] Proposal for revised charter

There seems to be not enough interest in the WG to revise the 
charter: only two people spoke up. I assume that the people at the 
face-to-face meeting who wanted to see the charter revised wanted to 
see the work done, but didn't intend to help do it, which is 
understandable.

<cue the forlorn violin music>

Russ: please start the process to shut down the MOBIKE WG. I assume 
that Steve Bellovin, our mailing list host, will keep the list open 
indefinitely. If not, we can move it to VPNC.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium