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Re: Emphasizing Key Mgmt




Frank,

From:  kasten@tri-flow.ftp.com  (Frank Kastenholz)
To:  crocker@tis.com
Reply-To:  kasten@ftp.com
Cc:  Paul_Lambert@poncho.phx.sectel.mot.com, atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil,
            ipsec@ans.net
>Steve,
>
>I'd suggest that you open a separate working group for key
>management.  Experience has tended to show that as the number of
>items on a single working group's agenda increases, the probability
>of the group coming to closure on things decreases. If you have one
>group with two goals, the chair of the single group has to multiplex
>his time over both goals. With two groups, each with its own goal,
>each chair is free to concentrate on a single goal. An alternative
>would be to serialize the effort, finish the first task before
>addressing the second.

If there are three groups going at once in ipsec, dns-security, and
key management, I believe that many mail messages will be relevant to
more than one group.  I don't suppose they could have a common mailing
list?

>Yes, there is the inter-group coordination problem but that is what
>the Area Director and the Area Directorates are for :-)
>--
>Frank Kastenholz
>FTP Software
>2 High Street
>North Andover, Mass. USA 01845
>(508)685-4000

Donald


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