Re: [Gen-art] Genart telechat review of draft-gutmann-scep-08

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Sun, 04 February 2018 14:42 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Christer Holmberg <christer.holmberg@ericsson.com>, "gen-art@ietf.org" <gen-art@ietf.org>, "pgut001@DOMAIN.HIDDEN" <pgut001@DOMAIN.HIDDEN>
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Replying to my own message: The proposed text would then read:

This specification defines a protocol, Simple Certificate Enrolment Protocol
(SCEP), for certificate management and certificate and CRL queries.  While
widely deployed (see the <xref target="background">Background Notes</xref>
section for more on the history behind SCEP and the nearly two decade-long
progress of this standard), this protocol ...

which I think explains the nature of the "widely-deployed" comment while not overloading things with a huge load of historical commentary.

Peter.