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Re: Last Call: Recognising RFC1984 as a BCP

2015-08-13 10:10:38
On 8/13/2015 7:48 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote:
We have a social responsibility to design an internet that 
...
does not
provide an impregnable conduit for the use of people that seek to
harm us.


Stuart,

When a goal is specified, it permeates the work.  The goal therefore
needs to have a practical basis for achievement, rather than merely
capturing a lofty and idealistic wish.  Otherwise, it winds up serving
as a distraction at best; at worst, it destroys efficacy.

In the current case, there is no line of technical effort that has been
put forward, which has any credible support from the knowledgeable
technical community, that supports the above goal without thoroughly
undermining the other essential goals.

To the extent that you know of a practical line of design effort that
can satisfy the above goal, without also creating the basic problems
that have been documented, please describe it.

d/

-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net