Re: [ca-tf] Minutes: Certification Task Force teleconference, 21 September 2007

[Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg@localhost]

Maybe I was mumbling too much ....

On 24.09 15:43, Andrew de la Haye wrote:
> Henk asked whether work being done in the IETF Routing Security  
> Working Group might overlap with the areas that Daniel is looking at.  

Daniel answered that the routing applications he is going to
describe are not in the area of secure routing protocols but
in the area of making certification useful for current tools
as Ruediger requested in Tallinn.

> Daniel noted that RIPE, unlike the other RIRs, is intending to  
> discuss the implications of certification thoroughly with the  
> community before implementing anything. Daniel is looking at the more  
> practical applications side, not going into technicalities. 
Daniel plans to deliver a number of short white papers which outline
applications of certification and their business cases.
These include
> routing  
> security, particularly in relation to R?diger's expressed concerns  
> regarding backward compatibility, as well as how certification might  
> be used to simplify provisioning processes, and how certification  
> might be used to make resource transfers more secure.