On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:10:13 -0400, Derek Atkins said:
Unfortunately that is not sufficient....
Is there an RFC defining the rules?
FWIW, from the minutes of the 45th IETF OpenPGP WG on 14-July-1999:
Advance to Draft, Collect $200
6 months have passed
Requirements
2 implementations
No IPR problems
6 months of experience
JN: We have the experience but we do not have the interoperability
fully checked. Suggest: Enumerating all the musts and publishing a
document so implementors can easily see requirements for
compliance. Finally, we can get implementors into a room for
testing.
Implementors' survey & results are at:
noc.rutgers.edu/~mione/ietf/ietfopgp.html
Moving to "draft standard" will be a secondary process once we finish
2440bis.
:-(
Okay, to make the later interop testing easier we should now really
consider to make all PGP2 things OPTIONAL or even remove them.
Werner