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Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 28 July 2011 14:32 UTC

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On 7/28/11 10:20 AM, Keith Moore wrote:

> In other words, I'm not convinced that this change will do much harm,
> but I'm also not convinced that it will help much. 

I don't disagree.

> And yet we keep
> flogging this idea...

But we always flog the easy issues, rather than facing the tough ones.

It would be good to start talking about the tough issues, but IMHO there
is some value in settling on two maturity levels as well.

Peter

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