At 6:49 AM 12/29/94, Jeff Thompson wrote:
However, I want to ask, is there anything in particular you wanted
MIME/PEM to utilize explicitly from X.509 v3, rather than just waiting
Not exactly sure that this follows directly from Jeff's note, but it
definitely IS intended to add to Ned's note on procedural issues:
1. As soon as we start talking about changing language in substantive
ways, we delay the process.
2. Isolate dependencies and process them asynchronously. In particular,
allow the current spec to support a variety of key styles and then provide
for IANA registration of them. As a very separate matter, you may then
pursue standardization of each or some of the styles. Please do not make
the core spec dependent on anything but the simplest and most immediately
useful style(s).
d/
PS. I'm personally sympathetic to desires to "help" other standards specs,
but we have a fair amount of IETF history with such efforts. None has been
successful and all such effort which were relied on therefore caused
enorormous difficulty. The mere fact of formal processing by another
standards body is not nearly as meanginful as most of us would like to
believe.
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