Werner Koch writes ("Re: OpenPGP Web Key Directory I-D"):
On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 20:49,
ijackson(_at_)chiark(_dot_)greenend(_dot_)org(_dot_)uk said:
Suggested modification: Replace this part of the URL with the
URL-encoded email address.
Nope: That breaks existing implementations and would not allow to serve
the data from static files.
It certainly would allow serving the data from static files. If you
wanted case-insensitivity and can't configure your webserver to smash
the case, then then in practice you could make three files.
Overall, I described this protocol to Simon Tatham (author of PuTTY)
in the pub last night and he spluttered into his cider and said "is it
April the 1st in a different timezone?"
III. Normative status of this document
| Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
| and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
| time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
| material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
OTOH, it is a standard practise that RFCs are based on existing
implementations and we have that implemented in in GnUPG 2.1.12 (May
2016) and thus for example also in Debian Stretch
I don't think most of the Debian folks realise they are participating
in a protocol design experiment.
Since you are still in the protocol design phase, you would no doubt
welcome implementation and deployment of an alternative simpler
protocol ?
Ian.
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