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On Sun, Jul 5, 2026 at 10:02 AM Andrew Lee <andrew@joseon.com> wrote:

> Hello, again, Mr. Salz!
>
> I never said RECOMMENDED=N means flawed. I said it means not recommended.
>
> On Jul 5, 2026, at 9:54 AM, Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> wrote:
>
>     If the "Recommended" column is set to "N", it does not necessarily
>     mean that it is flawed; rather, it indicates that the item either
>     has not been through the IETF consensus process, has limited
>     applicability, or is intended only for specific use cases. …
>
>
> Your own quote says N indicates the item "has limited applicability, or is
> intended only for specific use cases."
>
> Jonathan said the Cyber Centre will not recommend one over the other. That
> means Canada plans to treat a limited-applicability, specific-use-case
> option as equivalent to the RECOMMENDED=Y hybrid.
>
> That is the very definition of ignoring the flag.
>

Without taking a position on whether CCCS is ignoring the Recommended flag,
the fact that some set of entities chooses to ignore a flag does not make
it "meaningless in practice" as you assert above.

-Ekr

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