- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 13:08:25 +0000
- To: Cory Benfield <cory@lukasa.co.uk>
- cc: Jacob Appelbaum <jacob@appelbaum.net>, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
-------- In message <390ACFC5-7664-45A4-9849-9EBFCA8F1568@lukasa.co.uk>, Cory Benfield writes: >> You know, I'd actually prefer the draft isn't bloated with >> boilerplate text like that. It should concentrate on the >> task at hand and simply caution: >> >> "We remind the reader that Key-distribution is the only really >> hard cryptographic problem, do not take it lightly." > >Here I disagree, I simply don't think that goes far enough. >Ambiguity in RFCs is bad. That is not ambiguity, is pointing out that there are other problem-domains, outside the subject of the present document, which should be looked carefully at. We also don't write treatises about transmission error detection into every document which uses TCP. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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