Re: [openpgp] Summary of WG status

"Robert J. Hansen" <rjh@sixdemonbag.org> Tue, 15 August 2017 17:10 UTC

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> Wouldn't anything else require truncation, and thus not give us the
> extra safety we're looking for?

Guys, I hate to be the cat-herder here (especially because nobody's
appointed me to be -- but we clearly need one), but the time for these
questions was *a year ago*.

We have a proposal on the table.  Let's keep the WG discussion focused
on yes or no to the proposal.  Let's not get sidetracked with other
discussions.