How does the use of HTTPS restrict who can participate in the IETF? That is like saying that because we no longer offer Gopher, we have closed off participation to some (possibly null) set of Internet users. If we do not encourage the use of our own work, why should anyone else use it? On Nov 5, 2013, at 10:41 PM, ned+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > This is, or is supposed to be, an open standards body, one that is > trying to encourage as many qualified people as possible to participate. > It makes no sense at all to restrict access in this way.
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