"Amanda Walker" says:
Amanda, we're not trying to push anything into the standards track. We're publishing SSL as an informational RFC, and we have separately submitted SSL as a proposal to the W3O working group on security (in parallel with SHTTP and a handful of other proposals). Nothing is being pushed into the standards track.
Aha. This was not particularly clear from my reading of the SSL spec and the other stuff about SSL on your WWW server. If you're just issuing an informational RFC, then I have just become much less annoyed.
You, perhaps, but not me. They are publishing it as an informational RFC to get an end run around the IETF process in my opinion -- they fully intend for people to use the protocol on a non-experimental basis, so it isn't just "information". I may try to have a talk with the IESG and Postel before this publication happens. Perry