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RE: [LinkSec] scope





>... As far as 
>extensibility goes, it is not so easy to extend single-hop 
>scenarios to multi-hop ones if one has not given the latter 
>proper consideration first; the other way around, however, is 
>just a special case.

Yes.  A very good reason to design for multi-hop.  


Paul


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rene Struik [mailto:rstruik@certicom.com] 
>Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 8:10 PM
>To: Russ Housley
>Cc: Dolors Sala; Mats Näslund; LinkSec
>Subject: [LinkSec] scope
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>Dear all:
>
>The proper approach is to define a security conceptual 
>blueprint that allows for extensibility. Once this is done, 
>one can care about the partitioning of the security in things 
>that are inside and those that are outside scope. As far as 
>extensibility goes, it is not so easy to extend single-hop 
>scenarios to multi-hop ones if one has not given the latter 
>proper consideration first; the other way around, however, is 
>just a special case. I hope wisdom and a borader vision will prevail.
>
>Rene
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