Re: [TLS] Re: Third Last Call: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns

[Eric Rescorla <ekr at networkresonance.com>]

At Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:39:05 -0400 (EDT),
Dean Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Tim Polk wrote:
> > The TLS working group declined to take this work on.  That is
> > different from not supporting publication.
> 
> The above isn't a true statement.  The name of the draft
> "draft-housley-tls-authz-extns" contains the name of the working group,
> a fact that indicates it is a working group document.  After the fraud
> by Housley was discovered, and the approval was removed, the TLS Working
> Group was asked, but no longer supported the protocol because of the
> patent.  See Rescorla's message, quoted above.

Dean,

Your statement above is inaccurate. The -tls- in the document name
does not mean that the document is a WG document. It's quite common
to have draft-<individual>-<wg> documents, which generally indicates
that the named individual believes the document is targets at that
WG. As an example, consider the following documents:

  draft-bryan-p2psip-reload-01.txt
  draft-jennings-p2psip-asp-00.txt
  draft-matthews-p2psip-hip-hop-00.txt

These are all alternative documents targeted at the P2PSIP WG
(there are about 5 more, too) but none have been accepted by the WG.

This document has never been a work item of the TLS WG.

-Ekr

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