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Re: [woes] New WOES charter proposal

Dave CROCKER <dcrocker@bbiw.net> Sat, 16 July 2011 00:24 UTC

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On 7/14/2011 1:45 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
>> The first requirement is for proponents to provide much more explicit
>> details about what is being proposed in the use of CMS.
...
> Well, I don't really follow your logic there, but we're not
> aiming to do a new thing here.
...
> Anyway the path for developing yet another crypto format
> is a pretty well trodden one and IMO CMS is the best current
> starting point for that process, so I think its entirely
> reasonable to ask people why they disagree with that.
>
> It does of course presume familiarity with CMS, but then
> that should be a prerequisite for working on woes, really.


Steve,

Oh.  This working group is merely a CMS encoding exercise?  That was not at all 
clear previously.

I suspect I am not the only one who missed this as the anchoring and inflexible 
premise to the work.  (For reference, that requires even stronger language than 
is in the current draft.)

d/

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   Dave Crocker
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