Re: Summary: What to do with expired signatures

["Eric A. Hall" <[e-mail]>]

Robert Elz wrote:

> It isn't whether the text format is useful, it is whether
> standardising it is the right thing to do which is the issue.

There are valid reasons why people want it. What are your valid reasons
for preventing other people from having it? I mean, as weak as the
arguments for a standardized out-of-band replication system may be, there
are no valid arguments against it that I can think of. So the question
really is, why should we not clarify it? What is the cost?

> The equivalent analogy for e-mail would be mailbox format, and that's
> something that certainly isn't standardised (though there are some
> common formats).

Except that mbox has never been defined in a STD, while this one has.
Another example of this would be LDIF (albeit not an STD), and to lesser
degrees, things like bootptab which have been described as examples.

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