Re: [Cfrg] Requesting removal of CFRG co-chair

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Sat, 21 December 2013 18:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Requesting removal of CFRG co-chair
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On 12/21/2013 05:53 PM, Trevor Perrin wrote:
> 
> My impression is that WGs such as TLS do indeed rely on CFRG opinion.
> Perhaps that's their choice rather than an IETF mandate.  Nonetheless
> it does occur, as was quite clear in the handling of Dragonfly:

Yes, dragonfly was handled that way. I can't recall when was
the time before that to be honest, so its rare. My main point
was that you shouldn't expect a large well-informed population
of IETF participants when it comes to this discussion. Those
that are well-informed, are probably here already.

S.