Re: Last Call: Recognising RFC1984 as a BCP

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On Aug 10, 2015, at 10:13, The IESG <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

- RFC1984 from Informational to Best Current Practice
   (IAB and IESG Statement on Cryptographic Technology and the Internet)

I support this change.

And I would like the IETF to consider issuing a new Informational document to update RFC 1984 for the purpose of expanding on the following statement, which appears in the original text:

   [...] But PFS is generally incompatible with schemes
   involving escrow of private keys.  (This is an oversimplification,
   but a full analysis would be too lengthy for this document.)

I suppose it’s possible (I haven’t searched) that a document has already been written that contains this full analysis, in which case it should suffice to mark RFC 1984 as updated by that document. If such a document does not exist, then I really think it’s long past time that one be written to answer the predictable complaint from non-technical policy-makers that the IETF nerds aren’t communicating effectively why a naïve approach to their government policy problems is doomed to fail.


—james

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