On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, David Morris wrote:
I don't see reason to use https for delivery of public documents such
as RFCs and Internet Drafts. All that would really accomplish is
reduce caching opportunities.
That's like saying most of the letters you send and receive should be
postcards, because they have nothing to hide. Yet you send/receive more
letters in envelopes than not.
We should abolish all plaintext, regardless of the content. The internet
should be a neutral carrier, and our protocols should not make decisions
on which information needs encryption and which does not. It should
always encrypt.
Paul