Re: [arch-d] Time to reboot RFC1984 and RFC2804?

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Wed, 14 October 2020 01:34 UTC

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From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
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Subject: Re: [arch-d] Time to reboot RFC1984 and RFC2804?
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Stephen,

You are making all my argument better than i can.

I can only predict that if your line of thinking and talking persists in I*
leadership then IETF will continue to loose relevance for the industry at large.
Too bad.

Cheers
    Toerless

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 02:12:50AM +0100, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> 
> 
> On 14/10/2020 01:51, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 01:23:03AM +0100, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 14/10/2020 01:12, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> >>> TLS 1.3 is the best example. The abuse of IETF principles by its
> >>> rough mayority was not the rough consensis on rfc8446, but how it was
> >>> made clear that dissenting profiles, even if mean to be used only for
> >>> controlled networks would not find a home in the IETF.
> >>
> >> If I understand your grammar correctly, I consider that
> >> counterfactual nonsense.
> >   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > Offensive, dismissive judgements are not a technical argument.
> 
> Asserting that something is counterfactual should not be
> offensive. Well perhaps it might to someone who found some
> facts offensive, I'm not sure;-) Nonsensical statements are
> the opposite of sensible ones, and are common on IETF
> lists. I'm quite surprised any of that is surprising to
> anyone that posts often.
> 
> All that said, I do think a bit of dismissal is warranted
> though - the TLS WG wasted a year and a bit on that stuff
> for no good reason, so yes I do think those who claim those
> nonsense arguments don't deserve to be dismissed are wrong.
> (Surely we're ok to dismiss zombie arguments like these,
> if for no other reason than efficiency in the face of an
> utter lack of new [or actually also of old!] facts?)
> 
> > 
> >> TLS1.3 was quite a good example
> >> of running the process and even of extending the set of
> >> people participating to bring in lots of new and real
> >> expertise.
> > 
> > Thanks for rephrasing the first part of what i said. My criticism was
> > about the additional TLS profile RFC(s) that did not happen in the IETF due
> > to very clear resistance to them even though there was a big enough
> > community supporting them. 
> 
> Again, that's counterfactual. The proponents of breaking
> TLS1.3 in that way, (draft-green et. al.) had many many
> opportunities to make their (weak) case. They did that,
> some very badly, some less so. And they failed to be
> convincing.
> 
> Then some of them went to a captive group in ETSI and got a
> rubber stamp for their (IMO terrible) idea. For me, that
> says more about a lack of quality control in ETSI than
> anything else. I hope TLS and web implementers continue to
> entirely ignore the output of that supposed piece of
> "work."
> 
> > Aka: The TLS RFC NOT for the Internet but
> > for controlled networks with specific three party trust.
> 
> That discussion was had. TLS is a two party protocol. You
> may wish the outcome had been otherwise but it was not.
> 
> S.
> 
> > 
> > Cheers
> >     Toerless
> > 
> >> S.
> > 
> > pub   RSA 4096/7B172BEA 2017-12-22 Stephen Farrell (2017) <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
> >> sub   RSA 4096/36CB8BB6 2017-12-22
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 

pub   RSA 4096/7B172BEA 2017-12-22 Stephen Farrell (2017) <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
> sub   RSA 4096/36CB8BB6 2017-12-22
> 




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