Thank you for sending me your notes, Lutz.
I'd like to note, however, that at the BOF in Munich, I agreed to be the
editor of this document, and the BOF agreed. Referring to me as the "new
editor to be" is incorrect. As far as the working group is concerned, I've
always been the editor.
Right now, I'm merging your work, the July draft, and other text from Hal
Finney, Paul Hoffman, Rodney Thayer, and others. I expect to have
everything merged by the end of next week, at which time I'll send it out,
and then we can have another editing pass on it.
The document I'm working on is the "Format" document, as opposed to the
Trust Model document (which also includes key server protocols). I can't
find my final list of what all the documents are. At one time, we were
talking about a handful of them, but a number of them got lumped together.
For example, I proposed originally that there be a document for packet
format, one for tehniques and algorithms, one for how packets are lumped
into messages and keys, one for the trust model, etc. John and Charles,
following the advice of Jeff Schiller (our Area Director), preferred a
small number of larger documents.
I really appreciate the work you've done -- I am taking all the other
sources I have and putting them into your document, and using its base
framework. My original plan had been to make a new framework that built up
messages from their constituant parts, and to rework a lot of the language
in the document. For example, getting rid of terms like "CTB," "Packet
Structure Field," and "Packet" itself (I was going to call them "Records").
I started this in my portion of the July draft, and I'm doing some, but not
the rest. For example, there's text now that says that a message "is
constructed from a number of records that are traditionally called packets"
and then uses the word "packet" everywhere else.
The one I'm editing now doesn't have trust models, politics, or anything
like that in it. It's a format document. Also, timestamps are specifically
out-of-scope for the working group.
Jon
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