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

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Tue, 02 June 2015 18:06 UTC

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On 6/2/2015 11:02 AM, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2015, at 12:59 PM, Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> wrote:
>> Leaving out the have-nots - or those whose access is blocked by others
>> when content cannot be scanned - isn't moving forward.
> 
> That would certainly be a problem if the consensus were not to
> provide both a secure and an, as you call it, "open" version of all IETF documents.

The IETF is more than just the documents.

All IETF content should be accessible via non-secure means.

Joe