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List:       linux-ha-dev
Subject:    Re: [Linux-ha-dev] IPC abstraction (part of the OCF plumbing)
From:       Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb () suse ! de>
Date:       2002-03-12 10:32:59
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On 2002-03-11T09:38:10,
   Andy Poling <andy@realbig.com> said:

> Lars seems to be advocating that the higher layers must provide auth info
> (possibly in one or more auth domains that we create and the system itself
> does not know about and cannot implicitly support) to the transport layers,
> and we will provide our own auth tranport (within the transport layers we
> create/provide).
> 
> On the other hand, Alan seems to want to use implicit auth info available in
> some communications domains.

Actually, there are no two hands; both are needed.

> That doesn't mean that we shouldn't use implicitly available auth info on
> some transports to auth the transport itself (which is transporting our auth
> info)... that seems quite useful.

Yes, exactly ;-)

> Thoughts?  Am I missing the point(s)?  :-)

No, we just weren't arguing in the first place ;-)


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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