Re: https at ietf.org

["MAISONNEUVE, JULIEN (JULIEN)" <julien.maisonneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately there are scénarios in which you have the adéquate agent but not the corresponding proxy.

(JM, ex mobilum)

Le 5 nov. 2013 à 18:35, "Tim Bray" <tbray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

I disagree. I can’t think of an scenario in which a human who wants/needs to use IETF publications would not have access to an HTTPS-capable user agent.  -T

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:21 PM, <ned+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

I don't have any problem with making things available via https, but it needs
to be possible to retrieve things with regular http. Not everything gets
retrieved by a browser and not every tool out there supports https.

                                Ned