Re: IDS> NAP binding spec new draft

From: Brian Smithson (brian.smithson@ricoh-usa.com)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2009 - 13:42:30 EST

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    Regarding the new NAP draft:

    I tried to remove information that was already specified in other specs (MS-SOH and HCD-ATR) but unless I am mistaken, it was not as straightforward as we may have thought it might be. Nine of the attributes are described in other specs, so they fit nicely into the tabular format that was suggested back in October's meeting. However, the other eleven needed to be described in the NAP spec and for those I referred to subsequent sections for the details. Looking at the overall result, I'm wondering if this has made the NAP spec less usable for implementers. Some of the necessary information is in the NAP spec itself, some of it needs to be retrieved from one of two other documents, and some of it needs to be retrieved from yet another document (PA-TNC) that is referenced by one of the referenced documents (HCD-ATR).

    Maybe it would be better to fully specify things in the NAP spec? I realize that this will place the same information in two documents and risking that they lose sync with one another, but ultimately I think we want a binding spec to be implementer-friendly.

    Let's discuss on Thursday's call...
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Regards,
Brian Smithson
PM, Security Research
PMP, CISSP, CISA, ISO 27000 PA
Advanced Imaging and Network Technologies
Ricoh Americas Corporation
(408)346-4435


    Nevo, Ron wrote:
    NAP binding spec new draft

    New NAP binding spec. updated by Brian is now posted.

    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ids/wd/wd-ids-napsoh10-20090130_ncb.pdf

    Regards

    Ron Nevo

    Senior Product Manager 

    Information Security, DVM, Standards and Compliance

    Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America

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