comments on 990806 Requirements Doc

Apparently this had problems the first time and Joseph asked me to re-send it...

Donald E. Eastlake, 3rd
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Donald Eastlake
08/17/99 01:20 PM

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From: Donald Eastlake/Hawthorne/IBM@IBMUS
Subject:  comments on 990806 Requirements Doc


2.2:  Suggest changing "The manifest includes..." to "The manifest must
support..." so as to permit other types of manifest.

3.1.2: Assumes the manifest of locators model.  Perhaps simply changing
"XML-signatures apply ..." to "XML-signatures may apply..." would give the
flexibility needed to accodate other models.

3.1.2.1, 3.1.2.2, 3.1.2.3: I don't understand why these points are at the fourth
level.  Seems to me they should be move up one level in the outline.

3.1.3 & 3.3.1: Suggest replacing "negotiation" with "calculation".  I believe
this refers to Diffie-Hellman and I think calculation is more accurate than
negotiation.  Might even want to change 3.1.3 to be "...calculation of keying
material such as Diffie-Hellman agreement."

3.2.1: Suggest simply replacing "document" with "element" and dropping the boxed
comment.

3.2.2: Suggest replacing "required" with "mandatory to implement".

3.3.3: I think behaviour in this case is application dependent.  It would be
good for applications to at least notice conflicts and be able to report them.

Boxed comment at the end of 3.4: I don't see that packaging is that dependent on
trust/semantic definitions.  Since there are fragment and package WGs, why isn't
coordination with them adequate?

Donald

Donald E. Eastlake, 3rd
17 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA
dee3@us.ibm.com   tel: 1-914-784-7913, fax: 1-914-784-3833

home: 65 Shindegan Hill Road, RR#1, Carmel, NY 10512 USA
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Received on Tuesday, 17 August 1999 16:49:51 UTC