Dave raised this a while back and I think it
underlies at least his issues with the draft
so I'd like to check if there's consensus on
what I and I think folks on the saag list
considered as the target audience for this.
On 04/08/14 18:08, Dave Crocker wrote:
All of which leads to the basic question of who this draft is for? I
thought it was for broad-based use among technicians, technical managers
and others, including folk who are not security experts and folk who
might not even be networking or computer experts.
It really would help to gain some rough consensus about the target
audience for this document, so that that population can be referenced
when attempting to evaluate choices, rather than having anyone attempt
to rely on their personal preferences, here on the IETF.
Good question.
My own take, and I think one that was assumed
in the saag discussion, but perhaps was not
explicit (didn't check) is:
The audience for this are protocol designers
who know and care a bit about security and
security folks. That is, its for the average
or better IETF participant.
I'm pretty sure Dave disagrees with that and
thinks that we should target a broader audience
or at least consider that this will be read by
a broader audience and so should target those.
I'd also note two other things. 1) this is not
a tutorial, nor should it be, nor can it be and
2) later, we will want to make recommendations
as to when one should use OS and those should
be more easily understood by a wider audience
and (I think) that ought be done as part of
an effort to update BCP72. So this draft will
not be the last word on OS.
Other opinions? I think good responses here
would be of the form "yeah, what you said" or
"no, I think the audience for this should be..."
In the latter case, please do weigh the difference
between the perfect and the good. Put another
way, if you suggest a radically different audience,
I'll be asking you if you're willing and able
to help do the work to change the document
accordingly:-)
And perhaps it'd be good if the first person to
respond along the latter lines could be Dave so
that we're clear what different from the above
audience he meant.
Ta,
S.