Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2-18

2010-01-08 Thread Simon Josefsson
Alexey Melnikov writes: >>The I-D says: >> >>The original >> GSS-API->SASL mechanism bridge was specified by [RFC], now >> [RFC4752]; we shall sometimes refer to the original bridge as GS1 in >> this document. >> >>I don't see

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2-18

2010-01-08 Thread Simon Josefsson
Nicolas Williams writes: >> In particular, the current consensus of the SASL community appears to >> be that SASL "security layers" (i.e., confidentiality and integrity >> protection of application data after authentication) are too complex >> and, since SASL applications tend to have an

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2-18

2010-01-08 Thread Simon Josefsson
"Spencer Dawkins" writes: > Summary: This document is almost ready for publication as a Proposed > Standard. I did have one minor question about 13.3 (in my LATE > review), but it should not be difficult to resolve, if an AD agrees > with my question. Hi Spencer. Thank you for your careful revi

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2-18

2009-12-07 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:37:21AM +, Alexey Melnikov wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > > >On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 07:02:53PM +, Alexey Melnikov wrote: > > > >>Hi Nico, > >> > >>Nicolas Williams wrote: > >> > >> > 13.3. Additional Recommendations > > If the application

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2-18

2009-12-07 Thread Alexey Melnikov
Nicolas Williams wrote: On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 07:02:53PM +, Alexey Melnikov wrote: Hi Nico, Nicolas Williams wrote: 13.3. Additional Recommendations If the application requires security layers then it MUST prefer the SASL "GSSAPI" mechanism over "GS2-KRB5" or "GS2-KRB5-PLUS".

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2-18

2009-12-04 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 07:02:53PM +, Alexey Melnikov wrote: > Hi Nico, > > Nicolas Williams wrote: > > >>13.3. Additional Recommendations > >> > >> If the application requires security layers then it MUST prefer the > >> SASL "GSSAPI" mechanism over "GS2-KRB5" or "GS2-KRB5-PLUS". > >> > >>S

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2-18

2009-12-03 Thread Alexey Melnikov
Hi Nico, Nicolas Williams wrote: 13.3. Additional Recommendations If the application requires security layers then it MUST prefer the SASL "GSSAPI" mechanism over "GS2-KRB5" or "GS2-KRB5-PLUS". Spencer (minor): If "prefer the mechanism" is the right way to describe this, I apologize, but

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2-18

2009-12-03 Thread Nicolas Williams
Thanks for your review. On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 03:19:04PM -0500, Spencer Dawkins wrote: > 1. Introduction > > The GS1 bridge failed to gain wide deployment for any GSS-API > mechanism other than The "Kerberos V5 GSS-API mechanism" [RFC1964] > > Spencer (nit): s/The "Kerberos/"The Kerberos/

Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-sasl-gs2-18

2009-11-30 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html). Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you may receive. Document: draft-ietf-sasl-