[7286] in Kerberos
Re: Straw poll: GSS-API newsgroup?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alain Lavoie)
Wed May 15 17:46:55 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 17:16:15 GMT
From: Alain Lavoie <allavoie@qc.bell.ca>
-- Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> Please send me E-mail if you would be interested in a Usenet newsgroup
> for discussion of the GSS-API...
I beleive this newgroup would be useful. I have seen multiple vendor
implementation supporting this interface and a good document describing
all free and commercial products, their compliance and their level of
interoperability would certainly benefit the community as well as
generate ideas about its evolution and direction.
However, for the moment a FAQ document on all GSS-API related information
could be a start. I would definitely want to participate to this one.
[1]> Do you think the group should be moderated or unmoderated?
The comp.protocols.kerberos is a good template for its setup.
[2]> What to you think the name of the group should be? You can pick one
> of these possibilities or suggest something different:
> comp.security.gss-api; comp.protocols.gss-api;
> comp.security.api.gss-api.
comp.protocols.gss-api
[3]> Do you think it would be useful to have different newsgroups for
> different mechanisms, e.g., one for the OSF DCE mechanism, one for the
> Kerberos V5 mechanism, etc.?
No, one of the advantage of Gss-api is its protocol for supporting
mechanism independance. Different vendor supporting different mechanism
is to the vendor advantage. In this way, its implementation is more
likely to be chosen to a generic server supporting different mechanism
types.
[4]> If the answer to the last question is yes, then do you think that the
> per-mechanism GSS-API groups should be created in a GSS-API group
> hierarchy, or in the hierarchies of the technologies to which they're
> related. For example, would you prefer
> "comp.protocols.kerberos.gss-api" or "comp.security.gss-api.kerberos"?
>
> Thanks for your input.
Alain.
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