Re: [openpgp] IESG conflict review check...

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> Fri, 24 July 2015 10:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] IESG conflict review check...
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On Fri 2015-07-24 12:10:05 +0200, Stephen Farrell wrote:

> The IESG has been asked to do a 5742 conflict review [3]
> of a document that describes an application of PGP so
> I thought I'd check here.
>
> So the question is if the WG think there is any conflict
> between this specification [4] and the work of this WG.
>
> IMO the answer is no (having quickly scanned the document).

i also agree that the answer is "no" -- I do not think this spec
conflicts with the work of the WG.  It's basically saying "use OpenPGP
to sign and/or encrypt the transcript before sending, with a specific
mime structure".  we're not aiming to get in the way of that.

> [4] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-davin-eesst/

the ascii art here is kind of "wow".

    --dkg