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Re: [babel] Some open HMAC issues

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Mon, 16 July 2018 09:39 UTC

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Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> writes:

>>> Hmm.
>>> 
>>> I mean, hmm.
>
>> What? Are you saying that getting standards modified so they fit your
>> implementation is *not* how one is supposed to approach the IETF? ;)
>
> For the record, my approach to IETF activities is:
>
>   - implement the protocol we have in mind;
>   - describe our implementation in an I-D;
>   - get Toke to implement the I-D;
>   - say hmm;

With you so far...

>   - win the World Cup (a pity for Croatia, though);

... but this implies our next window for publishing anything is 2022,
and that we would all have to root for France. I'm not sure I'm okay
with either of those conditions.

>   - produce a new I-D integrating Toke's comments.

This is, of course, the central point that I can only agree with :D

-Toke

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