At 2:41 AM -0700 10/11/97, Adam Back wrote:
5. The IETF process should be accepting proposed designs and deciding
on the best ones, which PGP Inc, and the other suppliers would then go
and implement. As it is now, as William Allen Simpson just pointed
out, PGP Inc is cruising ahead implementing, and deploying things
without bothering with the OpenPGP process.
Just a quick reality check here. Frequently implementations have proceeded
IETF standards. That is one of the strengths of the IETF process (as
compared with e.g the CCITT.)
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