Re: [dane] On the PKIX-TA / PKIX-CA question? [ One week WGLC ]

John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> Mon, 02 December 2013 23:05 UTC

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From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Subject: Re: [dane] On the PKIX-TA / PKIX-CA question? [ One week WGLC ]
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I propose that we reject the draft entirely and stick with numbers.
If we can't agree on the acronyms, can we stop rearranging the deck
chairs?  A focus on making "running code" for the current DANE RFC
would produce far more deployment than replacing numbers with words.

	John