TNC standards become IETF standards!
Posted by Ken Y-N on March 12th, 2010 at 03:01pm
The latest bit of good news about Trusted Computing Group standards taking over the world has been the announcement by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the consortium that basically decides the standard protocols for the internet, that they have accepted and published two of the Trusted Network Connect (TNC) work group’s standards.
The two standards are the PB-TNC (or IF-TNCCS 2.0 according to the TCG) and the TA-TNC (or IF-M 1.0), both connected with collecting and reporting on the health of an endpoint such as a laptop or a printer.
Joel Snyder from the consultants Opus One said:
"With the IETF adoption of the TNC NAC specifications, network managers now have the assurance that the best minds from vendors, enterprises, and academia have come together behind a common set of protocols."
The other major plus point of this is that Cisco have said they would finally support TNC once it becomes an IETF standard, so hopefully we’ll soon see some action from them. Steve Hanna from Juniper Networks and co-chair of the TNC posted a related blog entry that covers the hopes for total interoperability in the near future built on the basis of these standards.
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