Re: [TLS] Analysis of Interop scenarios TLS extension RI w/MCSV

David-Sarah Hopwood <david-sarah@jacaranda.org> Fri, 11 December 2009 18:11 UTC

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Martin Rex wrote:
> Nelson B Bolyard wrote:
>>> Keeping an old version of a specification around in a MUCH
>>> MORE promentiently fashion for 9 years tells a lot about what
>>> Netscape thought of the draft-302.txt document.
>> It's not "much more prominent".  It's merely HTML.  Prettier, perhaps.
> 
> Let's see:
> 
> The following URL says "SPEC":
> http://web.archive.org/web/20050207004652/wp.netscape.com/eng/ssl3/3-SPEC.HTM
> 
> This URL says "Draft":
> http://web.archive.org/web/20050206122938/wp.netscape.com/eng/ssl3/draft302.txt
> 
> and includes an _explicit_ expiration of May 1997.

This is really reaching. They are both *draft* *specifications*.

Yes, the former should have been removed from the site, or marked as
obsolete. That's water under the bridge now.

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