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Re: V3 secret keys

Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> Fri, 17 February 2006 15:38 UTC

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From: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
Subject: Re: V3 secret keys
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:54:01 -0800
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On 16 Feb 2006, at 10:48 AM, David Shaw wrote:

>
> If the language in 1991 is suitable, perhaps we could just point to
> 1991.  Is it legal to refer in this way to a document that we're
> obsoleting in 2440bis?

I don't think so. 1991 was never standards track. I don't want to re- 
open the old dead horse of whether you can obsolete something that  
was never standards track. It's too much like Alice's comment on more  
tea.

Furthermore, it would committing a sin that drives me up the wall, of  
requiring someone to go back N documents. If the language in 1991 is  
close, then why not edit it into something suitable? I think that's  
much better than leaving pointers all over the place for people who  
read it a decade from now to have to deal with.

	Jon

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