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1997-10-13 - Re: IETF policy on refusing to allow politics to weaken protocols(Re: Why Adam Back keeps politicizing technical issues)

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From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
To: Adam Back <whgiii@invweb.net
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UTC Datetime: 1997-10-13 06:58:00 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 14:58:00 +0800

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From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 14:58:00 +0800
To: Adam Back <whgiii@invweb.net
Subject: Re: IETF policy on refusing to allow politics to weaken protocols(Re: Why Adam Back keeps politicizing technical issues)
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At 2:41 AM -0700 10/11/97, Adam Back wrote:
>
>5. The IETF process should be accepting proposed designs and deciding
>on the best ones, which PGP Inc, and the other suppliers would then go
>and implement.  As it is now, as William Allen Simpson just pointed
>out, PGP Inc is cruising ahead implementing, and deploying things
>without bothering with the OpenPGP process.

Just a quick reality check here.  Frequently implementations have proceeded
IETF standards.  That is one of the strengths of the IETF process (as
compared with e.g the CCITT.)



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