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