Hi Fernando,
At 06:45 PM 01-11-2024, Fernando Gont wrote:
After the Snowden revelations, you might not need to classify such
governments as despotic...
The attribution might be somewhat incorrect. :-)
If I am not mistaken, the existing IETF policy does not account for
some threats. I suggest reading Section 5 of RFC 7624 if you are
interested in the security angle.
At 08:27 PM 01-11-2024, Fernando Gont wrote:
Not sure what is being argued here. probably something to mandate
use of STARTTLS. BUt then,
- it doesn't solve the entire problem,
- it's not a backwards compatible change
The above is a good summary.
The consensus within the IETF Community was that "an Internet
Standard is characterized by a high degree of technical maturity and
by a generally held belief that the specified protocol or service
provides significant benefit to the Internet community". I am not
sure how that is actually assessed by the IESG.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
