On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 8:08 AM Salz, Rich <rsalz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
- I appreciate your clarification on the terminology but if you search https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/cfrg/?q=standard or https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/cfrg/?q=rfc, thousands of results show up.
That doesn’t matter. What matters is what the document *is*
I can post a message saying “I have a standard way to remove fleas from dogs using software” But that doesn’t make it an Internet-Draft, let alone a standards-track RFC.
It doesn't matter to you, but it does matter to other people like me. I only subscribed to this cfrg mailing list a few days ago and there, the word standard and rfc are used quite often (the search result definitely has false positives, but has true positives as well). The github https://github.com/cfrg/draft-irtf-cfrg-bls-signature from the authors says "BLS Standard Draft" and it also says "The repo is maintained by a working group aiming to standardize BLS signature scheme".
