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Re: Proposed Statement on "HTTPS everywhere for the IETF"

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Tue, 02 June 2015 21:40 UTC

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On 6/2/2015 2:30 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
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> I would rather not preemptively knuckle under to censorship.

You have that luxury.

Don't make that decision for others.

> If it
> turns out that we turn on HTTPS and nobody can see it,

This isn't a hypothetical. There's harm even if blocking isn't universal.

> we can adapt to that fact.  

We are (by consensus) - by continuing to use HTTP.

Joe

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