A place for discussing WKD spec clarifications?

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Oct 16 20:30:09 CEST 2019


On Tue 2019-10-15 23:01:33 +0200, Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:06, Bjarni Runar Einarsson said:
>
>> Would the GnuPG issue tracker be a good place to file "bug
>> reports" against the spec, to work towards clarifications?
>
> That is okay for bug reports, but often it is more important to get the
> opinions from more people than those who triage the bug reports.
>
> I thing gnupg-devel@ gnupg.org would be an appropriate place for
> discussing such topics.

WKD is a useful spec, and an increasingly important part of the OpenPGP
ecosystem.

If we want general e-mail discussion about WKD concerns, i'd suggest
using the openpgp at ietf.org mailing list, as it will reach implementers
of more WKD clients than just gnupg-users.

That said, e-mail discussion is not the same as a tracker that allows us
to keep a list of currently-known issues and concerns.

If https://dev.gnupg.org/ is not appropriate for that sort of issue
tracking, perhaps we could set up an issue tracker on gitlab associated
with the WKD spec?  I'd be happy to set up such a tracker at (say)
https://gitlab.com/openpgp-wg/web-key-directory/issues if folks are OK
with it.

Werner, does that sound OK to you?

As usual for any IETF-related interoperability discussion, i'd expect
any major issues to *also* go to the mailing list for visibility and
robust archiving, but i think that having an actively-maintained,
publicly-accessible issue tracker related to this important work would
be concretely useful.

        --dkg
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