Re: TLS WG Chair Comments on draft-ietf-tls-authz-07

"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> Thu, 12 February 2009 00:46 UTC

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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:46:21 -0500
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>
Subject: Re: TLS WG Chair Comments on draft-ietf-tls-authz-07
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:29:05 -0800
"Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com> wrote:

> Could I just point out here the real risk that this relevant
> objection might get lost in the sea of irrelevant aggitation from the
> FSF supporters? 
> 
I agree.  Let's move the substantive discussion to the TLS WG mailing
list, or at least agree on some "secret" keyword to put into Subject:
lines that I can use for better filtering; I'm on the verge of
kill-filing anything with "authz" or "TLS" or "patent", at least if
they appear on the IETF list...


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb