Re: [TLS] [Ietf-honest] Last Call: draft-ietf-tls-extractor (Keying

[Marsh Ray <[e-mail]>]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     It may suit your purposes better for there to be an actual legal
>     confrontation in which you prevail,
> 
> What in the world are you talking about?  You seem to be making an
> accusation based on a wild leap of imagination.

Read it again. It's just analysis, and you're excerpting below the
whole-sentence level.

> If I wanted to follow the same practice towards you, I could say,
> 
>     It may suit your purposes better to fabricate accusations
>     hoping some of them will stick,
> 
> But I don't know that is so.

It's possible, it _may_ be so, but that's true of lots of things we
choose not to say. What basis it has is the more interesting discussion.

> Perhaps you did not realize what an
> extrapolation you were making.

I don't think it's so far out.

> So instead of making that accusation, I would like to ask you
> to think about whether the intentions I have stated suffice
> to explain my actions.

Listen, I've given these decent hardworking IETF folks way too much to
read today already. Here's what I'll do: I apologize if it sounded to
you like I was accusing you of something that you didn't want to be
accused of. Now we can address the finer points off-list if it's OK with
you.

- Marsh