Re: [rt.icann.org #3528] FW: General Request for Assignments (ppp-numbers)
Vernon Schryver <[email protected]>
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> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:44:51 -0700 (PDT) > From: "Michelle Cotton via RT" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > PPPEXT Working Group: > > This is a follow-up to a recent request you were reviewing for IANA. > The Working Group Chair requested that the group wanted to see the I-D > before making a decision. Below, please find the I-D sent to IANA by > the requestor. > > We will await your response. Judging from the last time I tried to reply to you, you may wait a long time for a response from me. I am reluctant to leap through Challenge-Response hoops, because Challenge-Response system are an abuse of the network. Either they do no good because the incoming message was perfectly legitimate, or they generally send noise to innocent third parties whose addresses are forged in spam. I have seen far more unsolicited, unprovoked substantially identical (i.e. bulk) C-R challenges due to forged mail than legitimate C-R challenges resulting from mail I've sent. > > draft-ghernaouti-sfaxi-ppp-qkd-00.txt Why isn't that draft in the familiar place on ftp.isi.edu? Why can't I find it at https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/idindex.cgi?command=search_id Is it a real (i.e. officiall published) I-D? It has no substance except this place keeper: > 5- QKD phase: > a. The source and the detector share a secret key exchanged > using quantum cryptography > b. When the secret key is ready go to Network phase All standards must contain sufficiently detailed specifications to allow people to build independent but interoperable implementations. Those words contain essentially no technical information. If they represent the design behind the proposed registry, the proposed registry must be rejected with prejudice. It is hard to see how ECP and quantum cryptography could interact directly. I can see how one might use quantum cryptography to choose a key that could then be used with PPP-ECP, but I don't see why PPP needs any changes. What is the difference as far as PPP is concerned between exchanging keys with quantum cryptography and with plain old telephones? Vernon Schryver [email protected] _______________________________________________ Pppext mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/pppext