Subject: Re: e2e security (was Re: stats from the text conferencing experiment)

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:56:32 -0500

In message <[email-masked]>, Melinda Shore writes:
>> And for my part I'm quite happy that IAB is not involved in
>> approving IETF standards.
>
>One IAB member in particular is reviewing security issues in
>transport area documents.  It's been enormously helpful, and
>while I don't think anybody misunderstands that there's a
>formal approval process here, his advice is being treated as
>consequential to the process of getting documents done.
>
More precisely, he's doing it wearing his Transport Area Security 
Advisor hat; it's orthogonal to his IAB role.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
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