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

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Mon, 01 June 2015 23:22 UTC

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Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 18:22:08 -0500
From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
Subject: Re: Proposed Statement on "HTTPS everywhere for the IETF"
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On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 06:00:42AM +0700, Roland Dobbins wrote:
> On 2 Jun 2015, at 5:59, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> > Changes like using https by default have much broader justifications.
> 
> They also have much broader objections.

Broad enough to stop the IETF from making the statement we're
discussing?  Your objections w.r.t. DoS attack characterization are
hardly "broad" enough.

Nico
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