On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, David Morris wrote:
I don't see reason to use https for delivery of public documents such as RFCs and Internet Drafts. All that would really accomplish is reduce caching opportunities.
That's like saying most of the letters you send and receive should be postcards, because they have nothing to hide. Yet you send/receive more letters in envelopes than not. We should abolish all plaintext, regardless of the content. The internet should be a neutral carrier, and our protocols should not make decisions on which information needs encryption and which does not. It should always encrypt. Paul