Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA

Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com> Fri, 06 September 2013 15:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA
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On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> wrote:
> In other words, the IETF needs to assume that we don't know what will work
> for end users and we need to therefore focus more on processing by end
> /systems/ rather than end /users/.

... and do not close off any options because we assume people won't
want to use them.