Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-xmpp-dna-04.txt

Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> Mon, 09 Jun 2014 10:19:17 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.xmpp
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On 11/3/13, 12:10 PM, Philipp Hancke wrote:
> Am 21.10.2013 01:02, schrieb [email protected]:
>>
>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>> directories.
>>   This draft is a work item of the Extensible Messaging and Presence
>> Protocol Working Group of the IETF.
>>
>>     Title           : Domain Name Associations (DNA) in the Extensible
>> Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)
>>     Author(s)       : Peter Saint-Andre
>>                            Matthew Miller
>>     Filename        : draft-ietf-xmpp-dna-04.txt
>>     Pages           : 16
>>     Date            : 2013-10-20
>>
>> Abstract:
>>     This document improves the security of the Extensible Messaging and
>>     Presence Protocol (XMPP) in two ways.  First, it specifies how
>>     "prooftypes" can establish a strong association between a domain name
>>     and an XML stream.  Second, it describes how to securely delegate a
>>     source domain to a derived domain, which is especially important in
>>     virtual hosting environments.
>
> Just noticed that none of the terminology defined in section 2 is
> actually used. I think the reference to XEP-0238 can therefore be removed.

Yes, some of the terminology is used (e.g., "source domain") but none of 
the XEP-0238 terminology is used, so we can remove that text and the 
reference.

> I do suspect the figure showing the overall process can be simplified as
> proposed in
> https://github.com/fippo/xmpp-fed/commit/913a183a5a74ea7b03a1b8a67164bb35df9e0c9b
> but it has been long enough since that commit that I need to recheck this.

Yes, the flow diagram is really long, so I agree that it'd be good to 
shorten it. Will review, too.

Peter