Internet Security Glossary, Version 2
RFC 4949
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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>
Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, <iana@iana.org>, ietf-announce@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Informational RFC to be:
draft-shirey-secgloss-v2-09.txt
The IESG has no problem with the publication of 'Internet Security
Glossary, Version 2' <draft-shirey-secgloss-v2-09.txt> as an
Informational RFC.
The IESG would also like the IRSG or RFC-Editor to review the comments in
the datatracker
(https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=view_id&dTag=12238&rfc_flag=0)
related to this document and determine whether or not they merit
incorporation into the document. Comments may exist in both the ballot
and the comment log.
The IESG contact person is Russ Housley.
A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-shirey-secgloss-v2-09.txt
The process for such documents is described at http://www.rfc-editor.org/indsubs.html.
Thank you,
The IESG Secretary
Technical Summary
This Glossary provides definitions, abbreviations, and explanations of
terminology for information system security. It is very long (300+
pages). It offers recommendations to improve the clarity of Internet
documents. The recommendations follow the principles that Internet
documents should (a) use the same term or definition whenever the same
concept is mentioned; (b) use terms in their plainest, dictionary
sense; (c) use terms that are already well-established in open
publications; and (d) avoid terms that either favor a particular
vendor or favor a particular technology or mechanism over other,
competing techniques that already exist or could be developed.
Working Group Summary
This is an individual effort. It is not affiliated with any IETF
Working Group.
Protocol Quality
The Security Directorate helped review this document. Each member was
assigned the task of reviewing several pages of the document. The
intent was to make sure that someone other than the author had looked
at each definition. Comments were provided by each reviewer; however,
there was no attempt to reach consensus on each definition.
This document was reviewed by Russ Housley for the IESG.
IESG Note
This RFC is not a candidate for any level of Internet Standard.
The IETF disclaims any knowledge of the fitness of this RFC for
any purpose and notes that the decision to publish is not based on
IETF review apart from IESG review for conflict with IETF work.
The RFC Editor has chosen to publish this document at its
discretion. See RFC 3932 for more information.
Note to the RFC Editor
The Abstract and the Introduction of this document include
prescriptive language that is more appropriate in a BCP. The
IESG strongly encourages the RFC Editor to work with the author
to come up with wording that does not imply an IETF concensus
on the definitions in this document.