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Re: [saag] keys under doormats: is our doormat ok?

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sun, 12 July 2015 18:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [saag] keys under doormats: is our doormat ok?
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> I disagree. Publishing an update signals that our opinion has evolved.
> It hasn't, even if the technology has evolved to make software the focus
> rather than hardware. Besides, this kind of document is a huge rathole,
> and I don't believe any minimal changes would be worth the hassle.

I completely agree.

Just as we elevated RFC 20 to STD, we could still elevate it to BCP -- a
status that, IIRC, was just becoming available at the time RFC 1984 was
published.

Grüße, Carsten

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