Re: [TLS] Metadiscussion on changes in draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation

Bob Braden <braden@ISI.EDU> Wed, 27 January 2010 17:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Metadiscussion on changes in draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation
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Martin Rex wrote:

> what do you want to say with this?
> That implementors should ignore at least half of the MUSTs and SHOULDs
> in IETF documents, because they don't make any sense, create unnecessary
> interop problems or are otherwise harmful -- and should not be in the
> document in the first place?

All in all, that pretty much sums up the current (and long standing) 
situation, IMHO.

Bob Braden