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Re: [secdir] draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure

Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org> Mon, 17 August 2009 01:36 UTC

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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:36:48 -0700
To: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org>
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Subject: Re: [secdir] draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure
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At 7:42 PM -0500 8/14/09, Nicolas Williams wrote:
>It'd be silly to make this a Standards-Track RFC with not a single
>REQUIRED to implement feature in it -- all implementations of anything,
>anywhere, could then claim to be compliant. 

The draft in question normatively relies on the definitions in RFC 2119 and, because it is slated for standards track, RFC 2026.

Any implementation of any type of RFC, not just standards track RFCs, can claim whatever it wants. 'Twas ever thus.

If you want to update RFC 2026 to deal with the issue of standards track documents with no RFC 2119 MUST statements, that's fine. However, doing so should not affect Internet Drafts while the IETF goes through yet another process on process.

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