Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@shinkuro.com> Sun, 30 January 2011 14:55 UTC

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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:58:14 -0500
From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@shinkuro.com>
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Subject: Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 09:27:17AM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

> The raising of the bar for proposed standard has a very simple reason: it is
> now almost impossible to change specifications once deployed.

That's an argument for _no_ maturity levels, then, not for two.   

A

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