- From: Paul Hoffman <paulh@imc.org>
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 11:08:00 -0800
- To: ietf-tls@w3.org
The charter looks good to me. I have one small concern that, if others agree, could be easily resolved. >Several methods of providing a secure and authenticated channel >between a client and a server on the Internet above the TCP layer have >appeared. The objective of this proposed working group is to write >standards track RFC(s) for protocols using the currently available >Internet drafts as a basis. These two sentences together make it sound lke the protocol will be for client-server channels only. As the HTTP WG has discovered, calling something a "client" or a "server" can cause all sorts of problems when you later have "proxies". Further, we may want STLP to work in peer-to-peer situations. I suggest we reword the first sentence to read: Several methods of providing a secure and authenticated channel between computers on the Internet above the TCP layer have appeared.
Received on Saturday, 6 April 1996 14:09:15 UTC