Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-dane-openpgpkey-07.txt>

[Paul Wouters <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Stephen Farrell wrote:

> Agreed. I think it might make sense to add a bit of text to all
> the drafts in this space. Would something like the following be
> useful to include in this and other similar drafts?
>
> "This specification is one experiment in improving access to public keys
> for end-to-end email security. There are a range of ways in which this
> can reasonably be done, for OpenPGP or S/MIME, for example using the
> DNS, or SMTP, or HTTP.  Proposals for each of these have been made with
> various levels of support in terms of implementation and deployment.
> For each such experiment, specifications such as this will enable
> experiments to be carried out that may succeed or that may uncover
> technical or other impediments to large- or small-scale deployments. The
> IETF encourages those implementing and deploying such experiments to
> publicly document their experiences so that future specifications in
> this space can benefit."

I'm fine with adding this text to the Introduction.

Paul