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

Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com> Sun, 12 July 2015 16:36 UTC

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From: Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 12:36:24 -0400
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Subject: Re: [saag] keys under doormats: is our doormat ok?
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Hi,

I respectfully suggest that, just as IEEE and ISO periodically reconfirm
standards, this important IAB/IESG RFC 1984 should be minimally
changed and re-published ASAP.

In my own experience, most non-IETF literate computer people tend
to dismiss very old RFCs as no longer relevant.

Cheers,
- Ira


On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
wrote:

> On 12 Jul 2015, at 8:02, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>  The document is sometimes dismissed as being almost 20 years old, and
>> that it does not reflect current consensus among IAB/IESG.  Revising the
>> document (with as little changes as possible) and getting that approved
>> again would be useful, in my mind.
>>
>
> I would say the opposite: people respect that our opinion from 20 years
> ago remains the same.
>
> --Paul Hoffman
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