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Re: [TLS] RFC 5878 - why?

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 19 September 2013 12:22 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Ben Laurie <benl@google.com>, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:22:12 -0400
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> I notice that the authors have not responded to the corrections, either. So I guess they've abandoned it, too.

I am always reluctant to take such passive response as sign of anything.

I suggest Travis contact the authors and/or submit an errata that says "we wish to mark this RFC as a failed experiment for the following reasons" or something like that.

	/r$

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