Re: draft-dolson-plus-middlebox-benefits (was RE: Review of draft-mm-wg-effect-encrypt-09)

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 19 April 2017 00:33 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 10:33:33 +1000
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Subject: Re: draft-dolson-plus-middlebox-benefits (was RE: Review of draft-mm-wg-effect-encrypt-09)
To: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
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On 11 April 2017 at 18:51, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
> (*) That is the argument for draft-mm-effect-encrypt, for which I
> do support publication (apparently in disagreement with Martin in
> that case:-)


Taking a break from email is so refreshing...

I would very much like to see a document like this that captures these
use cases and practices.  The problem I have with it are simple: it
isn't particularly coherent, and it makes statements that I disagree
with.  Those statements are particularly bad because they are also
unnecessary (see Brian Carpenter's comments about facts).