Issue128

Issue Title Clarification of Figure 2 (Protocol Stacks)
Document: GIST Protocol Specification v11 Section: 3.1
Category: Editorial Priority: Must Fix
Status: Text Proposed

Created on 2006-10-10.14:51:32 by reh, last changed 2006-11-07.02:53:53.

Messages
msg466 Author: reh Date: 2006-11-07.02:53:52
Figure text changed as proposed.
msg465 Author: reh Date: 2006-11-07.02:53:34
In addition, comment from Russ Housley

"> >   Figure 2 shows TLS being used over UDP.  DTLS can be used with UDP,
> >   but that dos not seem to be needed here.  UDP seems to be used for
> >   D-mode, and D-mode is used when security is not needed.  C-mode is
> >   used when security is needed.

[snip]

Would 'Transport Layer Security (TLS or DTLS)'  be better?"
msg376 Author: reh Date: 2006-10-12.11:13:04
Revised text in 3.1:

   ...Note that not every combination of
   transport and security protocols implied by the figure is actually
   possible for use in GIST; the actual combinations allowed by this
   specification are defined in Section 5.7.
msg366 Author: reh Date: 2006-10-10.14:51:32
Figure 2 (the GIST layer model) can be misleading in that it seems to define all
sorts of possible protocol combinations, some of which are not even technically
possible, and others have not yet been formally specified for GIST. Comments
from Lars Eggert:

> >Section 3.1., paragraph 7:
> >>              Figure 2: Protocol Stacks for Signaling Transport
> >
> >  Nit: TLS doesn't currently operate over DCCP, and there are some  
> > issues with operating over some variants of SCTP.
> >

true; the diagram is supposed to be indicating the general structure rather than
precisely the detailed stacks that can be used. Maybe add a note that not all
protocol combinations are possible and the allowed ones are in 5.7?
History
Date User Action Args
2006-11-07 02:53:53rehsetmessages: + msg466
2006-11-07 02:53:34rehsetmessages: + msg465
2006-10-12 11:13:04rehsetstatus: No Discussion -> Text Proposed
messages: + msg376
2006-10-10 14:51:32rehcreate