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Re: Security for various IETF services

Dick Franks <rwfranks@acm.org> Fri, 04 April 2014 20:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: Security for various IETF services
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On 4 April 2014 20:48, Hector Santos <hsantos@isdg.net> wrote:

>
> Everyone else has already touch based with the same issues.


>  Silence could easily be misconstrued as acceptance.

[snip]

>   Stephen asked about the last sentence:
>
>   New services will however generally only be made
>   available in ways that use security protocols such as
>   TLS.
>
> Which to my eye looks like a conclusion;  without shred of justification
and before any meaningful discussion has taken place.


26 messages on and the consensus thus far is that an answer to Lloyd Wood's
one-liner is very much required.

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