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Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-30 10:57:36
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(_at_)shinkuro(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 09:27:17AM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

The raising of the bar for proposed standard has a very simple reason: it
is
now almost impossible to change specifications once deployed.

That's an argument for _no_ maturity levels, then, not for two.


Not at all, many protocols are never successfully deployed.

In the case that a protocol is successfully deployed, the final protocol has
frequently required major modification. Documenting those changes has value.


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