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Editor's Note: These minutes have not been edited.
MINUTES FOR OPEN IAB MEETING, APRIL 9, 1997 IN MEMPHIS
Jon Postel, RFC Editor, reported that the backlog of RFCs waiting for
publication has been significantly reduced over the past few months. He
was applauded for this progress.
Steve Bellovin reported on the IAB security architecture workshop. See
associated slides.
Comments/questions from the floor:
Authenticode is a problem--it encourages inexpert programmers to write
programs that can be scripted by a hacker.
Steve Bellovin: Yes, any sort of mobile code is a serious problem.
Jim Bound: Please make the slides publicly available.
Steve Bellovin: Yes, they will be up on Steve Bellovin's Web page and part
of the minutes of this meeting.
Merging of network management and operations areas is somewhat difficult;
people from the two communities have quite different approaches,
perspectives and viewpoints.
Fred Baker: The intention of the reorganization is to make sure the tools
that come out of the management area are useful to those who are
responsible for day-to-day operations of networks.
Stev Knowles: I've seen IAB retreats come and go... What is the IAB going
to do with the results of this retreat? Why not reject all protocols that
don't meet security requirements?
Fred Baker: Yes, once the proper documents are in place, working groups
will be required to seriously address security. Need the community as a
whole to support this, even if the protocol has been under development for
years, is already deployed, etc. "The community is on notice."
Dave Crocker: Working groups needs help from early on. Currently, we have
each working group trying to define its own solutions.
Bob Hinden: We need a deployed, ubiquitous infrastructure (keys,
etc.)--only then will we learn how to use it. Security in IETF specs is
only a beginning.
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These minutes were prepared by Abel Weinrib, weinrib@intel.com. An online
copy of these and other minutes are available at ftp://ftp.isi.edu:pub/IAB.
Also, visit the IAB Web page at http://www.iab.org/iab.