[saag] Re: New Version Notification for draft-rsalz-crypto-registries-00.txt

[Damien Miller <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2024, Tero Kivinen wrote:

> For the SSH there is already first come first serve policy (all names
> that contained @) but for some reason that was not enough. And
> implementations and interoperability works fine even with those first
> come first served names. There is no reason to require strings without
> @-chracter for algorithms, both forms work fine in the
> implementations.

The reason that it's not enough is that agreeing on names alone is
insufficient for reliable interoperability. At some point someone
needs to write down a specification and, at that point, it makes
sense to assign a standard name too.

-d