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RE: Capability Negotiation for OCP

2003-04-21 08:01:36
Alex,
agreed,

abbie


-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Rousskov [mailto:rousskov(_at_)measurement-factory(_dot_)com] 
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 11:00 AM
To: ietf-openproxy(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
Subject: RE: Capability Negotiation for OCP


On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Abbie Barbir wrote:

how about Authentication/Authorization/encrytption.

how/when these will be negotiated/supported etc. Are we 
talking about 
another encapsulation (like HTTPS or SASL) here or what?

It would depend on the transport protocol selection, I think. 
If the transport protocol already has mechanisms to support 
Authentication/Authorization/encrytption, then those 
mechanisms should be reused. IMO, possibility of this kind of 
reuse would be the primary advantage of selecting an existing 
application transport (e.g., BEEP) compared to new low-level OCPTRAN.

Since so many things depend on the transport now, we need to select
transport(s) as soon as possible.

Alex.

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