Notes from KMIP interop call, May 4

All,


Here are my summary notes from today's interop call. Please let me know
of any additions/corrections you might have.


Regards,

Mathias



Attending: Mathias, Bruce, Krishna (IBM), John, Stan (HP), Shyam (EMC)


Implementation Updates: 
- IBM server updated after tests with
Tim Hudson
- HP server no updates
- EMC client no updates, still working
on making the server available (client has been run from outside corporate
firewall)

Interop Information Sharing
- Sharing the information within the
group participating in the interop ok, but concerns regarding sharing the
information with the general public (including the general KMIP list, which
is public)
- So far the sharing about the details
have been between the involved parties, although the whole group is aware
of roughly what the others support/don't support

New Use Cases
- Not much feedback from Mathias' skeleton
use case document from a few months ago, targeted at symmetric key profiles
- Stan and Indra have been looking at
use case(s) regarding key wrapping
- Could use more use cases
- New use cases would not be included
in v1.0 document
- Aim at revisiting the topic later
when Tim is able to join the call

Timing of Calls
- Proposal from Tim Hudson to reschedule
interop call to the same day as the general KMIP TC call, either before
or after
- Some other possible alternatives also
suggested, Mathias to send out an email polling people's preferences and
availability

Other
- Related to earlier open-source and
API discussion: there has been talk of making a reference implementation
available (with no standardized API), but here an open issue is the hosting
of the implementation, the license and the accepting of contributions,
in addition to other legal issues
- Change to the latest version of the
spec has introduced ambiguity in the Get Usage Allocation operation: the
client does not indicate if it wants bytes or objects; also, the reference
in the Usage Limit Count field suggests the type of this field might be
a structure
- Use Cases document interprets the
field to be of type long integer
- Bruce to send a note to the TC list