Re: [dane] RFC 7929 on DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Bindings for OpenPGP

John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> Tue, 09 August 2016 22:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dane] RFC 7929 on DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Bindings for OpenPGP
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> The chairs what to thank Paul for his hard work in getting this 
> RFC published. 

Me too!  Paul, you are so much better at politics than I!

> In my long carrier as WG chair/document cat herder this was the
> one of most difficult ones. 

> > EXPERIMENTAL: This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the
> > Internet community.  It does not specify an Internet standard of any
> > kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.

My suggestion for improvement is that we put it on the standards
track.  I presume that the reason it switched from Standards Track to
Experimental in draft 4 of 12 is because that removed some barrier(s)
to getting it published.

But hey, there's no work to do here, we're disbanding anyway, right?
NSA is defeated.  Crypto keys are fully tied to their users by strong
mechanisms that nevertheless preserve privacy, anonymity and autonomy.
Experimental nonstandards are fine.  We're done.  Let's all go home now.

	John