Hi Lakshminath, Harald, > -----Original Message----- > From: Lakshminath Dondeti [mailto:ldondeti@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 12:40 AM > To: Harald Alvestrand > Cc: Narayanan, Vidya; nea@xxxxxxxx; ietf@xxxxxxxx; Alan DeKok > Subject: Re: [Nea] Re: WG Review: Network Endpoint Assessment (nea) > > At 12:29 AM 10/17/2006, Harald Alvestrand wrote: > >Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: > >>At 11:06 PM 10/16/2006, Harald Alvestrand wrote: > >>>Narayanan, Vidya wrote: > >>>>Harald, > >>>><snip> > >>>><snip> > >> > >>"NEA is applicable to computing environments of enterprises where > >>endpoints accessing the enterprise's network are owned > and/or expected > >>to conform to the policies set forth by the organization > that owns and > >>operates the network. In all other cases, NEA and associated > >>procedures and protocols are ineffective." > >> > >>Let us make that change so it is clear to everyone as to what NEA > >>might and might not do. > >I don't think we have any proof that this statement is true. I can > >think of scenarios where NEA would be useful, but they depend on > >various circumstances that either would be very specialized > or require > >a great deal of faith in order to believe they would happen. > > > >I suggest: > > > >"All other cases are outside the scope of the NEA charter, > since we do > >not know that NEA would be useful in such cases." > > Ok. > > For the benefit of the editor: > > Let us replace: > > "There is an open issue with respect to NEA applicability in > deployment scenarios where the endpoint is owned by a party > that is different from the organization providing network access." > > with > > "NEA is applicable to computing environments of enterprises > where endpoints accessing the enterprise's network are owned > and/or expected to conform to the policies set forth by the > organization that owns and operates the network. All other > cases are outside the scope of the NEA charter, since we do > not know that NEA would be useful in such cases." > This text sounds okay to me. Vidya > Lakshminath > > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf