----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Baker (fred)" <fred@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Brian E Carpenter" <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "John C Klensin" <john-ietf@xxxxxxx>; <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2015 6:07 AM > On Apr 3, 2015, at 11:50 AM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > True. But on the other hand, imagine a person living in a country > with unpleasant laws who wished to obtain a copy of, say, RFC 1984 > or RFC 2804 without revealing to the authorities that she is doing > so. So there needs to be provision for secure retrieval. > S/he might try this: > > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1984 "Page cannot be displayed" > https://rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1984.txt [timeout] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1984 " IAB and IESG Statement on Cryptographic Technology and the Internet" http://rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1984.txt " IAB and IESG Statement on Cryptographic Technology and the Internet" Q.E.D. Tom Petch