Re: [pkix] RFC 5742 review of draft-hotz-kx509 and about RFC 4211

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Mon, 04 June 2012 19:34 UTC

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Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:06:36 -0400
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From: Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com>
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Subject: Re: [pkix] RFC 5742 review of draft-hotz-kx509 and about RFC 4211
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At 9:24 AM +0200 6/1/12, denis.pinkas@bull.net wrote:
>First of all, thank you for both of you for your fast response.
>
>I am not arguing there is an RFC 5742 conflict with this document.
>
>Since you said that is an attempt to document an existing deployed 
>protocol, we cannot change it.
>
>Since you said that designing a better protocol is an expected 
>follow-on work, I raise the question to both the editors and the WG 
>chairs
>whether the document should be on the experimental track rather than 
>on the informational track.

Necause this is documenting an extant protocol, informational seems more
appropriate than experimental.

Steve