John Merrells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm putting together a more detailed agenda for the DIX BOF and would
> like to solicit your participation.
> One area of obvious interest to all is existing technologies and
> standards that apply to this space.
> Some possibilities, in no particular order...
>
> SAML, Liberty Alliance, Shibboleth, YADIS, LID, OpenID, WS-Trust,
> Infocard/Metasystm,
> Higgins, LDAP, RADIUS/DIAMETER, PKIX, SIP/Identity, SXIP(dmd0)...
> Others?
>
> I think they've all been mentioned on this list over the past few
> months. I'd like people to
> step forward and offer to present details they feel are relevant to
> this effort.

Hmm.... This seems like an awful lot of material. It's a 150 minute
session, and you've listed 14 different technologies. It's traditional
to leave at least a third of the time for open discussion and so this
leaves what, 7 minutes per technology? I'm not sure how useful that
would be. My sense is that while there are a lot of different
protocols in this space, there are only a few basic architectures.
So, hearing about all the protocol details isn't really that
illuminating.

I would encourage you to focus on high level requirements and
architecture rather than having a bunch of presentations on specific
technologies. This lets people focus on what's important (the
trust/threat model and dataflow) rather than on the bits on the
wire--which aren't really that important at this stage of the game.
It also avoids having a bunch of presentations which say in essence
"my protocol is just like protocol X except that it's written in XML
rather than ASN.1".

With that in mind, I would suggest something along the following
lines:

Time   Topic
-----------------------------------------------
10     Agenda bash
10     Motivating application 1   
10     Motivating application 2   
40     Overall requirements/goals 
20     Survey of architectural options 
10     Example protocol 1              
10     Example protocol 2              
10     Example protocol 3              
30     Discussion (Charter?)             

-Ekr


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