RE: draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-aes-ctr-00.txt

["David A. Mcgrew" <mcgrew@cisco.com>]

Steve,

this email is directed at the personal rather than technical comments that
you made yesterday.

> Finally, you dispute, thought only faintly, my characterization of
> the history of the design team and how we got to this point. There
> really is little ambiguity here. Russ was added to the team at your
> invitation. One might argue about whether you asked him to join in an
> effort to sway the team to your proposal.

While I respect Russ, and his contribution to the debate has been positive,
I did not invite him to be a co-author of the counter mode draft that Bob
Moskowitz was editing.  This should be obvious, since I never had the
authority to appoint contributors or editors!  Nor was I aware that Bob
intended to turn over the document to Russ; like many, I found out about it
after the fact.

> It is a fact, however, that
> Russ developed a compromise document, that the rest of the design
> team agreed to it,

By my count, there were seven people on the 'design team', two of whom
wanted a secret counter component, two of whom expressed a desire to avoid
packet expansion, and four of whom expressed agreement with the compromise
outlined by Russ.  But this fact is immaterial, since the counter mode
document is a WG action item and as such is intended to represent the WG and
not any particular subset of individuals.

>  and that you choose to bring your arguments to the
> list in an effort to reject the compromise.
>
> Steve

I participate in the IETF in order to promote open standards for useful new
technologies.

David