In article <9412121811.AA55359@amanda.dial.intercon.com>, amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) wrote:

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As for the IETF standards process, we are pushing the document into the RFC process.

Precisely. Rather than working with others in the industry and research communities, you are trying to push your proposal into the standards track.

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. We are trying to work with others in the industry and research communities, via the above actions, by publishing SSL on our server, by participating in this forum and others, etc., and we are generally succeeding, judging from the overall high level of feedback we're getting from people genuinely interesting in discussing the issues. Marc -- Marc Andreessen Netscape Communications Corp. Mountain View, CA marca@mcom.com