netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] net/handshake: Create a NETLINK service for handling handshake requests

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Date:   Mon, 13 Feb 2023 13:40:04 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Cc:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "hare@...e.com" <hare@...e.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>,
        Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@...app.com>,
        "jmeneghi@...hat.com" <jmeneghi@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] net/handshake: Create a NETLINK service for
 handling handshake requests

On Sat, 11 Feb 2023 20:55:58 +0000 Chuck Lever III wrote:
> Based on this reply I was unsure whether you wanted an English
> spec (similar to an Internet Draft) or a machine-readable one.

I meant machine-readable.

> But now that I look at these, I think I get it: you'd like a
> YAML file that can be used with tools to either generate a
> parser or maybe do some correctness analysis.
> 
> I think others will benefit as more security protocols come
> to this party, so it's a good thing to do for extensibility.

Yup, it's great for parsers and we also plan to add syzbot metadata 
to it with semantics of the fields.

> I will look into this for v5 definitely and maybe v4. v4
> already has significant churn...