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

[Pekka Savola <pekkas at netcore.fi>]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> In particular, there is a long-established tradition of specifying
> cryptographic algorithms as "Informational" documents, and referring to
> them from standards-track documents.

I think there needs to be separation of two different kinds of 
documents,

 1) informational, because the normative specification is elsewhere 
(usually another standards organization) and we could reference the 
normative spec directly, and just provide informative reference to the 
Info spec).

 2) informational document just because, well, the authors thought it 
would be easiest to write an informational document.  This is the 
normative specification, and it may or may not have had sufficient 
IETF or security review.

At least to me, these two categories should be treated differently. 
It is not clear which case this one belongs.

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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

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