[TLS] On editorial discretion

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Tue, 10 June 2014 23:56 UTC

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The talk about the various merits and drawbacks of state machines vs.
ladder diagrams is distracting.  Might I recommend that we leave this
to editorial discretion?  I'm sure that our editor won't mind
receiving input in the form of proposals, if anyone cares enough to
generate them.