Re: Proposal for revised charter

Hi Yaron,

I have few questions on your rechartering proposal.

On Monday 10 April 2006 15:04, Yaron Sheffer wrote:
> 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.

<snip>

> 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.

What kind of short term credentials do you have in mind? Pre-shared 
key? Or certificates? 

Also, IIUC that would means that the keying material required to 
validate those credentials would need to be distributed amongst the 
multiple gateways. Would you like to include such a work item in 
MOBIKE charter?

Finally, I guess the goal of your proposal is to reduce the delay of 
establishment of secure access upon inter-technology handover, right? 
Don't you think this goal could be achieved more simply via 
pre-authentication to the next gateway while still attached to the 
old gateway?

Thanks. Best regards,

--julien 

> -----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
>
>
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