Re: RFC-1829 to historic!

"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> Mon, 20 July 1998 17:06 UTC

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To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
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Subject: Re: RFC-1829 to historic!
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:06:18 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>

"William Allen Simpson" writes:
> As an interim solution, I will repost my DESX and 3DES drafts for
> approval as Proposed Standards, as modified (the silly explicit IV) by
> the IPSec WG, and with another Informational companion for backward
> compatibility with RFC-1851, which is currently Experimental.

There are new 3DES etc. drafts from the working group, aren't there?

I agree that as a symbolic act, the DES RFC be made Historic as
quickly as possible, but we should let the working group do its job in 
replacing it, probably with 3DES.

Perry