> From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> As far as I can tell, this is the crux of the problem with > NEA - that in general it's simply unreasonable for a network > to demand that every host that connect to it conform to > arbitrary policies for configuration of those hosts. IETF > should not be standardizing unreasonable expectations. And > even if the behavior is in some limited set of circumstances > reasonable (which is debatable), IMHO IETF should hesitate to > define standards for corner cases. That is not my understanding of the problem statement. My understanding is that the specification will provide a description of the host configuration policy to the network, thus allowing the network to better decide whether to let the host connect. It is a network protocol, not an inter-network protocol. That is not new, DHCP is a network protocol and has no relevance to the inter-network. NEA is a security gloss on DHCP. > (I do sympathize with the notion that the biggest threats to > an enterprise network are from the hosts that connect > directly to it, and so it makes sense to concentrate efforts > for protecting the network at the points where those hosts > attach to the network) > > The other problem I have with this charter is one that I have > with many charters these days - it presupposes a particular > design or architecture > before the working group has actually met, when this should > be an engineering decision taken by the consensus of the > working group AFTER analysis of the problem space. That is the approach that the IETF has been configured for for 15 years. If you believe that a different architecture is appropriate you would have to convince people that that is the case. Working Groups that do no begin with a tightly defined architecture usually fail. There could be a role for the IAB to consider what the best overall Internet architecture is, but the IAB does not operate at that level. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
