Personal blog about various IETF and Internet related activities
The OASIS cover pages provide an overview of a number of key management approaches in light of their recently announced key management initiative KMIP. The protocols mentioned there are: ANSI X9 Financial Industry Standards DMTF Security Modeling Working Group IEEE P1619.3 Security in Storage Working Group (SISWG), Key Management IETF Provisioning of Symmetric Keys (KEYPROV) [...]
The reorganization activities in the RAI area are ongoing with maximum speed. Cullen posted a mail to the RAI mailing list regarding the SIPCore WG Charter Text Dispatch WG Charter Text There is certainly a lot more activity that will follow in the near future.
The 2008 / 2009 IETF Nominating committee is happy to announce the selection of individuals to serve on the IESG. First, our thanks and appreciation to those indivudals who have served who will not be continuing on the IESG. Your efforts are very much appreciated. The appointments, which have been approved by the confirming body [...]
EAP-GPSK is a lightweight shared-key authentication protocol supporting mutual authentication and key derivation. This method is supposed to become a replacement for EAP-MD5 and has been developed in a design team in EMU. Finally, the document was published as RFC 5433. An implementation of this document can be found in the WPA Supplicant/HostAP, see http://hostap.epitest.fi/releases/, [...]
Fernando Gont [fernando@gont.com.ar] posted a mail to the SAAG mailing list about the work he did on analyzing TCP. His publication has triggered discussions in the IETF on how to publish these types of documents and his publication was picked up by the media as well. Here is what Fernando posted to SAAG: Last week [...]
The presentation provided (among other things) details on how browsers today still remain vulnerable to attacks because they fails to check the Basic Constraints extension.
The Nomcom has released their decision regarding the IAB nominations. (I am one of the Nomcom members.) The 2008 / 2009 IETF Nominating committee is happy to announce the selection of individuals to participate on the IAB. Marcelo Bagnulo Vijay Gill John Klensin Danny McPherson Jon Peterson Dave Thaler have been selected. Some of them [...]
At the Finnish Internet Forum #FIForum to discuss the role of small countries in Internet governance http://t.co/nkUPDpvQ5e
My favorite from #euesw2013: "What goes unmeasured is left without improvement!" stated in location discussion
Tony O'Brien joins EENA. Great news!
Attending the Berlin Group meeting; the agenda contains everything from 'the right to be forgotten' to a talk about Twitter privacy.