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[Rats] Re: Multi-verifier draft adoption

Muhammad Usama Sardar <muhammad_usama.sardar@tu-dresden.de> Fri, 17 April 2026 16:45 UTC

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Hi Yogesh,

As I clearly mentioned in my email, my concerns have NOT been addressed.

Of course, I am aware of the guidance of RFC 3552 (and I even cite it in 
draft-sardar-rats-sec-cons) and RFC 6973 is largely insufficient as well 
as irrelevant here, please read draft-sardar-rats-sec-cons, and in 
particular Sec. 1.1 [0] to understand why it is insufficient for RATS.

Since systems are generally based on one verifier, while this draft 
proposes multi-verifier, the draft should highlight the risks compared 
to the norm.


On 17.04.26 18:07, Yogesh Deshpande wrote:
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Please stop these notices. Your email is NOT confidential. It is 
publicly archived on a public mailing list (see [1]). Thank you!

Best regards,

-Usama

[0] 
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-sardar-rats-sec-cons-02.html#section-1.1

[1] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/rats/hZ11gA4OqrfU8NL11EW14oYPEc4/

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