NEA is Now an Official IETF Working Group
After a fair amount of debate, Network Endpoint Assessment (NEA) is now an official working group in the IETF. The group is initially chartered with only defining the requirements though. From Russ Housley’s email announcing the group:
Second, only the milestones related to the requirements document are approved. The idea is to get going with the architecture, requirements, and security analysis. These are all included in one document. The other milestones will be approved by me (not a re-charter action) once the IETF Last Call demonstrates that the NEA WG is moving in an direction that the community can support.
The timeframe for final requirements is April of 2007 at which point the other milestones may be approved. There seems to be some hesitancy in the IETF around this topic hence the staggered milestone approach.
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