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Re: [TLS] This working group has failed

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Sun, 17 November 2013 15:17 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
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> Implementers such as AGL are bypassing the WG, choosing to emit I-Ds and implementing and deploying because there is little
> to be gained from WG discussions. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it does raise a question of whether what is good for
> Google is good for the Web as a whole.

If, a few years ago, Microsoft did the same thing I have no doubt what the public reaction would be.

	/r$

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