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Shepherd writeup
draft-ietf-krb-wg-clear-text-cred

As required by RFC 4858, this is the current template for the Document
Shepherd Write-Up.

Changes are expected over time. This version is dated September 17, 2008.

  (1.a) Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Has the
        Document Shepherd personally reviewed this version of the
        document and, in particular, does he or she believe this
        version is ready for forwarding to the IESG for publication?

Sam hartman; yes.

  (1.b) Has the document had adequate review both from key WG members
        and from key non-WG members? Does the Document Shepherd have
        any concerns about the depth or breadth of the reviews that
        have been performed?

yes

  (1.c) Does the Document Shepherd have concerns that the document
        needs more review from a particular or broader perspective,
        e.g., security, operational complexity, someone familiar with
        AAA, internationalization or XML?
no

  (1.d) Does the Document Shepherd have any specific concerns or
        issues with this document that the Responsible Area Director
        and/or the IESG should be aware of? For example, perhaps he
        or she is uncomfortable with certain parts of the document, or
        has concerns whether there really is a need for it. In any
        event, if the WG has discussed those issues and has indicated
        that it still wishes to advance the document, detail those
        concerns here. Has an IPR disclosure related to this document
        been filed? If so, please include a reference to the
        disclosure and summarize the WG discussion and conclusion on
        this issue.
no concerns

  (1.e) How solid is the WG consensus behind this document? Does it
        represent the strong concurrence of a few individuals, with
        others being silent, or does the WG as a whole understand and
        agree with it?

When this work was originally proposed, it was out of charter for the
  working group. There was strong support for the work, although for
  reasons unclear to the chairs, several WG participants wanted to see
  the work go forward as a WG draft even though that meant
  rechartering, rather than going forward immediately as an
  AD-sponsored proposed standard. The author updated the draft based
  on the discussion, the WG was rechartered and the document was
  adopted and last called. Two individuals expressed support in last
  call; no other comments were made. This plus the strong support
  expressed prior to adoption suggests a fairly strong consensus.

  (1.f) Has anyone threatened an appeal or otherwise indicated extreme
        discontent? If so, please summarise the areas of conflict in
        separate email messages to the Responsible Area Director. (It
        should be in a separate email because this questionnaire is
        entered into the ID Tracker.)
no

  (1.g) Has the Document Shepherd personally verified that the
        document satisfies all ID nits? (See the Internet-Drafts Checklist
        and http://tools.ietf.org/tools/idnits/). Boilerplate checks are
        not enough; this check needs to be thorough. Has the document
        met all formal review criteria it needs to, such as the MIB
        Doctor, media type and URI type reviews?

I've reviewed, yes. Looks good. There are some typos and usage
  errors. I've asked for some editorial corrections if a new version
  is required later in the process. However, this is well within the
  sort of thing the rfc-editor routinely corrects and I believe the
  technical content is clear now and will remain clear if the rfc
  editor corrects these issues. So, if we need another version
  editorial fixes before rfc-editor would be good, but they are not
  blocking.


  (1.h) Has the document split its references into normative and
        informative? Are there normative references to documents that
        are not ready for advancement or are otherwise in an unclear
        state? If such normative references exist, what is the
        strategy for their completion? Are there normative references
        that are downward references, as described in [RFC3967]? If
        so, list these downward references to support the Area
        Director in the Last Call procedure for them [RFC3967].

The references are split. There are a couple of normative references
  that probably could be informative, but none of them are downward
  references or references to IDs so I don't see a point in being
  ultra picky about this.

  (1.i) Has the Document Shepherd verified that the document IANA
        consideration section exists and is consistent with the body
        of the document? If the document specifies protocol
        extensions, are reservations requested in appropriate IANA
        registries? Are the IANA registries clearly identified? If
        the document creates a new registry, does it define the
        proposed initial contents of the registry and an allocation
        procedure for future registrations? Does it suggest a
        reasonable name for the new registry? See [RFC5226]. If the
        document describes an Expert Review process has Shepherd
        conferred with the Responsible Area Director so that the IESG
        can appoint the needed Expert during the IESG Evaluation?

The document accurately states no IANA actions. No new message types
  are introduces; this document simply describes additional semantics
  for an existing message.


  (1.j) Has the Document Shepherd verified that sections of the
        document that are written in a formal language, such as XML
        code, BNF rules, MIB definitions, etc., validate correctly in
        an automated checker?

NA

  (1.k) The IESG approval announcement includes a Document
        Announcement Write-Up. Please provide such a Document
        Announcement Write-Up? Recent examples can be found in the
        "Action" announcements for approved documents. The approval
        announcement contains the following sections:

     Technical Summary
	The Kerberos 5 KRB-CRED message is used to transfer Kerberos
	credentials between applications.  When used with a secure transport
	the unencrypted form of the KRB-CRED message may be desirable.  This
	document describes the unencrypted form of the KRB-CRED message.




     Working Group Summary

        The Kerberos Working group had consensus to publish this document as a
        proposed standard.

     Document Quality

	The OASIS Security Services TC received a request for a mechanism to
	transport a Kerberos ticket and associated credential information in
	the Security Assertion Markup Language. This will be transported over
	a confidentiality and integrity protected channel. The intent is for a
	SAML IDP to be able to permit a SAML service to use Kerberos acting on
	behalf of some subject. As such, the service may have no existing
	Kerberos keying material but will have SAML keying material. As an
	implementation accident, at least three Kerberos implementations
	already had a facility for transporting Kerberos credentials without a
	key. Previously this was thought to be an unneeded facility that at
	best was yet another corner case to test. This document standardizes
	that already widely implemented facility because it happened to meet
	the needs of the WG in this area.
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