- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:02:45 -0400
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Larry Masinter wrote: > > I'm majorly busy from now until the end of the year, so I'm not going > to be able to send out frequent updates. The usual disclaimers > apply even more so: please check this over and see if it matches your > understanding. [...] > - security [...] > I think that the separation and lack of coordination between > WTS and HTTP-WG was a serious problem, and that I should have done > more to prevent this morass. > > I believe the Internet needs documented standards-track security > mechanisms for HTTP & distributed content. Perhaps we should > re-charter a new group to work on standards for SSL and applet > signing. There is, of course, an effort underway (ietf-tls) to standardize a generalized form of SSL. Did you have something else in mind? Dave Kristol
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