Re: Revised Last Call: 'SSH Transport Layer Encryption Modes' to Proposed

[Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at sun.com>]

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 19:14, John C Klensin wrote:
> Even if one believes that it is desirable, 3967 already weakens 
> traditional norms for documents on the IETF standards track.  A 
> suggestion that further weakening is needed definitely calls for 
> some discussion, at least IMO.

There is considerable historic variation between areas on this supposed
"norm"; I don't think it's appropriate to characterize 3967 as uniformly
"weakening" (or "strengthening") any norms.

In particular, there is a long-established tradition of specifying
cryptographic algorithms as "Informational" documents, and referring to
them from standards-track documents.

					- Bill




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