On 11/1/95 10:20 AM, perry@piermont.com worte:
There were two names on the MD5 document -- mine and Bill Simpson's. Bill didn't tell me that he was called (I suspect he would have), and I wasn't called, either. We were the only two editors of that portion of the specification.
This appears to have been a problem from both ends. A number of people arround here only heard about the IPsec work when it had reached the final call phase. There also seems to be a move towards looking at the question of how protocol and cryptography interacts as a field in it own right. I think this highlights one of the problems with the IETF we need a much broader infrastructure for understanding what progress other groups have made. The time when we can expect to do everything through email alone is past. I wish I could persuade more people in the IETF that the Web infrastructure could provide a valuable assistance as a collaboration tool for their needs. Unfortunately the approach seems to be that because there are is a person living at the end of a 2400 baud modem in vermont who cannot configure his PPP we should all continue in the stone age. We could improve readability of RFCs through using HTML and reduce the flamage on mailing lists through collaboration tools like the open meeting. But we don't because it hasn't been done that way in the past. I would like to see a collaboration system where I can present an expert with the context of a proposal very rapidly without expecting them to read the archives of an entire mailing list. Phill