[openpgp] Stop dragging around old material, please!

[Rick van Rein <[e-mail]>]

Hello,

At IETF 115 I offered to proof-read the draft for this WG.
Back then, I thought the old formats were finally being
ditched, something I already fought for during RFC 4880.

Now I find that it's being renamed to Legacy.  I think this
is a mistake, but I understand the scare of making choices.

Question:
Is there any use of old packet formats that uses crypto
that we would still consider healthy today?  None of the
signatures would now be reliable, but the encryption may
have protected us during transit back then, but not when
our email boxes get broken.

Suggestion:
There is an option to simply STOP MENTIONING old formats,
and relying on registries that continue to allocate their
tags.  The old format was specified in older RFCs and can
still be added to software that wants to be compliant with
old forms, even when they are deprecated or obsoleted.


Thanks,
 -Rick