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The Better-Than-Nothing Security (btns) in the Security Area has
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The mailing list will remain active.

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important items from the charter. The mailing list will be kept open
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documents. If drafted, the BTNS API documents will be submitted using the
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:39:18AM -0700, IESG Secretary wrote:
> The ADs would like to thank everyone who has been involved in the BTNS
> specification work, the chairs, Sam Hartman who was the responsible AD
> when the BTNS working group was formed, and various reviewers who
> helped greatly improve the BTNS specifications.

I second this, and also thank the current security ADs.

Nico
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Nicolas Williams wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:39:18AM -0700, IESG Secretary wrote:
> > The ADs would like to thank everyone who has been involved in the
> > BTNS specification work, the chairs, Sam Hartman who was the responsibl=
e
> > AD when the BTNS working group was formed, and various reviewers who
> > helped greatly improve the BTNS specifications.
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> I second this, and also thank the current security ADs.

+1

And let me add that while I am bit disappointed that we couldn't conclude t=
he API documents, I think it is fair to say that the most important deliver=
ables are there: the unauthenticated IPsec mode (RFC 5386), and the IPsec c=
onnection latching (RFC 5660.)

Hopefully these two useful pieces of work get implemented and leveraged on =
by applications in a near future. When that happens, the chances to documen=
t a proven API will IMHO greatly increase. In my experience it has never be=
en easy to work on APIs within the IETF, especially in cases such as this w=
here there isn't a lot of hands-on experience with interfacing applications=
 to the network mechanism.

Thanks again to everybody that got involved in this.

--julien
