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    RE: DRAFT Pittsburgh ips Minutes



    An important clarification has been pointed out in the DRAFT minutes.
    The DRAFT minutes say:
    
      Consensus call
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      There was a consensus call eventually. Should encryption be mandatory?
    
      The consensus in the room is that encryption of the stream should
      not be mandatory. A lot of people were concerned about the overhead
      it would imply on cheap devices.
    
    The consensus call question was actually "should implementation
    of encryption be mandatory"?   Since the consensus was "no",
    implementation of encryption will not be required by the specification.
    
    Note that implementation of authentication and related data integrity
    measures (e.g., that make it impossible to insert data into or hijack
    an authenticated session) will be mandatory, per the AD (i.e., if they
    are not mandatory in the spec that the WG produces, the spec
    will be returned to the WG with instructions to make it so).
    
    --David
    
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    David L. Black, Senior Technologist
    EMC Corporation, 42 South St., Hopkinton, MA  01748
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