Rodney Thayer <rodney@sabletech.com> writes:
The message formats draft(s) are being worked on now. We've only had official WG status for something like two weeks. A little patience is in order, I think.
PGP Inc is the group being impatient. They have been rushing ahead implementing things behind closed doors which some of us are arguing should be made non-conforming (WILL NOTs) in the standard. If PGP doesn't backoff a bit _they'll_ have non-conforming implementations, and will have to change them. The danger is that in a Netscape-like manner, they will use their implementation and deployment as arguments to justfiy their design decisions rather than being involved in open design decision justifications as part of the standardisation process. This is not how the IETF standardisation process is supposed to work. Trial implementation of proposals is fine, closed door design and sudden deployment and mass sale by the market dominator to pre-empt standardisation I think is not. Adam -- Now officially an EAR violation... Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`