Readable specs?

John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> Tue, 24 September 1996 11:45 UTC

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Subject: Readable specs?
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:47:10 -0700
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
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Now that we've "decided" what the key management protocol will be
called, does anyone plan to write a readable spec for it?  Or are we
doomed to produce the first IETF standard as incomprehensible as an
OSI or ANSI standard?

	John