On 12/31/13 3:23 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
We should not approve an IETF policy statement
until we have a good idea of the way we will use it.
I think this is a critical point and I agree quite strongly
with it. I've mostly been baffled by the IETF response to
revelations about internet eavesdropping, to be honest,
and it's struck me that work on some of the problems that
need to be solved to provide better privacy guarantees (for
example, fixing PKI and providing better keying) have been
pushed to a back burner in a scramble to make grandiose
pronouncements. It's not that draft-farrell is a bad
document on its own merits, it's just that I cannot for
the life of me understand what it specifically means for
work moving through the IETF process.
Melinda