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Re: [saag] AD review of draft-iab-crypto-alg-agility-06

Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org> Thu, 03 September 2015 22:27 UTC

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On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 05:18:56PM -0500, Nico Williams wrote:

> Viktor asks me what the take-away from section 2.5 should be.  IMO it is
> as follows.

Furthermore, Viktor, continuing to "play dumb" in the third person,
still does not see how mere mortals might reach conclusions similar
to Nico's from the current text.  So much so, that he can well
imagine that the text might be trying to say something entirely
different.

So, whether Nico's reading is right, or wrong, please make the text
more clearly carry its intended meaning, along with some tangible
best-practice for protocol, library or application designers.

-- 
	Viktor.

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