Re: [Curdle] Comments on draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-ext-info

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Sat, 18 March 2017 23:48 UTC

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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 18:48:41 -0500
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Curdle] Comments on draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-ext-info
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Replying to just a process point:

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 07:30:48AM -0600, denis bider (Bitvise) wrote:
> My understanding, also, is that IETF expects implementations to exist in order to bless an RFC – at least two independent implementations ideally, or at least one minimum. Perhaps I’m mistaken on this?

You are probably thinking about getting a document published as a
full IETF Internet Standard, which does require at least two
interoperable implementations.  Less stringent RFC types, such as
Proposed Standard, Informational, and Experimental, do not have such
a requirement (though it's always good to have, of course).

-Ben