RE: Where do we go from here?

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

> The model i see going forward is that there are: Applications,
> boxes and humans. Boxes will receive data from Applications and
> humans.

humans will receive data from applications and boxes
applications will receive data from boxes and humans

i suspect all six arrows are there.  while woody stressed the
arrows between humans and boxes, and hence was quite concerned
about their completeness, security, congruence with the arrows
between boxes and applications and applications and humans.

> As to the transport i totally agree that there are plenty of
> transports out there and all that should have to be done is pick
> one of a bunch from SSH, BEEP, SCTP etc. But how do we do that
> without asking a lot of questions of what the transport should be
> ?

by asking what the high-level requirements for the transports are,
and then chosing a transport which meets them.  but i think we have
some higher order decisions/discussions to make before getting to
the transport.  for example what is being transported, between what
entities, when, and so forth.

> As to security, you are quite correct that the model has to be
> defined. But is it any different from apps talking to boxes, and
> humans talking to boxes.

i don't know yet.  e.g. i suspect i want authentication and
privacy, though i am not sure there is agreement on this.  but i
have purposfully refrained from thinking about the identity model,
as i don't want to get too far ahead of the gang.

randy


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