Re: [perpass] Draft charter for a Transparency Working Group

Ben Laurie <benl@google.com> Wed, 11 December 2013 18:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [perpass] Draft charter for a Transparency Working Group
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On 11 December 2013 18:41, Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> wrote:
> On 12/11/2013 10:32 AM, Ben Laurie wrote:
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>> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/therightkey/current/msg00680.html
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> The text isn't a draft charter.  It's a very generic statement of an idea.
> Formulating that into the detail an actual charter will be helpful.
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> The text needs to give some explanation of what is being proposed, beyond a
> highly cryptic label like "Cryptographically verifiable logs".  A term like
> that could mean many things and from the message, I can't tell what is
> meant.
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> The text needs to explain what sort of usage scenario is expected, with
> enough detail to make the scenario substantive.  That permits the reader to
> get a sense of basic/likely relevance to operational environments.

Am I allowed to refer to RFC 6962 for background?

Reiterating what's in there doesn't seem useful.