RE: Security Module for shim6 or hip really

["Bound, Jim" <Jim.Bound@hp.com>]

Well we have the talent here to identify the interface and abstraction.
We would have to also address how does it effect the wire protocol parts
of SHIM6 exchanges too.  I know I might sound like a broken record but
we need to get security area to help too?  Or at least keep track.
/jim 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch@muada.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:50 PM
> To: Bound, Jim
> Cc: shim6@psg.com
> Subject: Re: Security Module for shim6 or hip really
> 
> On 19-jul-2006, at 16:19, Bound, Jim wrote:
> 
> > A suggestion proposed at the Montreal IETF SHIM6 WG meeting was to 
> > treat the security of ULIDs as module (abstractly speaking) 
> for SHIM6 
> > where the user or implementer can plug in different solutions.
> 
> Right.
> 
> This is attractive in some ways, but it does require us to 
> come up with an interface for exchanging this information 
> between the shim layer and the different providers of 
> security. How would that work?
>