- From: Phil Karlton <karlton@netscape.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:43:50 -0700
- To: Dan Simon <dansimon@microsoft.com>
- CC: Don Schmidt <donsch@microsoft.com>, "'John Macko'" <jmacko@nisa.compuserve.com>, "'Tom Weinstein'" <tomw@netscape.com>, "'ietf-tls@w3.org'" <ietf-tls@w3.org>
Dan Simon wrote: > Once again, the addition of the shared-key authentication feature to TLS > does absolutely *nothing* to anyone who doesn't want to use it, > implement it or support it. No one I know of is suggesting that it > would be in any way improper to refuse to support this feature in one's > software, machine, installation, enterprise or Web site. It would be > there for those who (in Phil's opinion are foolish enough to) want to > use it in concert with others in the same frame of mind. So what on > earth is the big deal? Interoperability for one. If the community fragments into differing authentication sub-camps, we all lose. PK -- Philip L. Karlton karlton@netscape.com Principal Curmudgeon http://home.netscape.com/people/karlton Netscape Communications This kind of rotor is known as a squirrel-cage rotor because the way it's wound is like a bird cage.
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