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In <7533(_dot_)wsimpson(_at_)greendragon(_dot_)com>, on 09/07/98
at 12:56 PM, "William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson(_at_)greendragon(_dot_)com>
said:
As I have to keep reminding folks every few months, the charter of this
WG was to update the old RFC-1991, document the actual design of PGP 5.0,
make some choices about what we were going to keep (IETF assumes change
control), and specifically was supposed to avoid disenfranchising earlier
PGP users.
The second deliverable, which as I remember was a PKI, we dropped from
the Charter.
This was not supposed to include 5.5, and certainly not 6.0.
Unfortunately, Callas turned out to be incredibly slow at writing
documentation. A typical programmer problem. So, what should have taken
at most 3-4 months, took over a year.
Meanwhile, they've come out with new versions. Can you blame them? Silly
folks are trying to make enough to keep eating....
William,
I would have taken someone at NAI a whole 5 mins to drop a note to the
list saying "by the way we would like to reserver packet types 16-20 for
some stuff we are playing with". Or even better they could have used the
private/experimental range of packet numbers 60-63.
I don't know about you, but I do not like the idea off all unassigned
numbers in the RFC being reserved for NAI use.
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