Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

[Mark Atwood <[e-mail]>]

This post would be much less confusing if you would name names, cite
examples, and point fingers.

> The reason why so many documents are at proposed is that they're
> often collections of bloat (limited-use features with an aggresive
> requirements level) from various interest groups that is
> not strictly necessary for a protocol to be useful, and sometimes
> used only by a minority.
>
> Normally, for progression from Proposed to Draft,
>
>   - some of the MUSTs would have to be changed to SHOULDs,
>   - some of the SHOULDs would have to be changed to MAYs,
>   - some parts might better be moved to seperate, optional
>     extensions documents
>
> But the particular interest groups would rather have the document
> remain at Proposed than seeing any of the requirements level of
> those particular features they're interested in, to come out lowered,
> or see features removed from the base protocol and into a
> seperate extensions document.
>
>
> This is one of the reasons why there is a constant stream of new
> authentication protocols.
>
>
> -Martin
>
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