Notes from KMIP interop call, October 28

Ladies and Gentlemen,


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


Regards,

Mathias



KMIP interop 2010-10-28
Attending: Bruce, Mathias, Alan, Stan


Mathias found some bugs in the Use Cases
document: Use Case 8.2 has some font irregularities, also the TTLV encoding
shown for some of the messages is broken.

Summary of the proposal for use cases
for the Basic Asymmetric Key Profiles: Use PKCS #1 as the key format type,
need to have key pair on the server for the Certify operations but neither
Register nor Create Key-pair mandatory in the profile in question; in general,
the current use cases 8.1 and 8.2 are ok, missing things are mostly certificate-related.
Comments and questions sent to the interop-list before next week's call
would be helpful, not much discussion today.

Discussion on interop type at RSA: prototypes
would in practice have to be used for interop-testing new (v2.0) functionality,
but what about having product interop? Bruce said marketing people are
more excited about showing real products, Alan asked if there are any other
clients available that speak KMIP other than IBM's tape library. Bruce
said Gordon would probably know best. Stan said that from the HP side it
would only be prototype interop.

Status of implementations: no updates
from IBM or Cryptsoft, IBM fairly confident to have a prototype to use
for doing interop at RSA, same for Cryptsoft according to Tim last week.
Stan said HP would probably also be able to have something similar to this
year, although getting resources is not easy. Alan said SafeNet would definitely
be able to show a client, would like to have a server also but couldn't
make any promises there. No update from Bob regarding the EMC/RSA status.