On 22/11/2016 09:42, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2016, Tony Hain wrote: > >> The IETF has taken a position that its job is creating technologies and >> that it is someone else's job to deal with the political implications of >> those. >> > > > Is that now the rule? Have RFCs 1984 & 2804 been superseded? Those RFCs were very carefully drafted to be based on technical issues concerned with security. It's true that they have implications for policy makers, and that they are inconvenient for policy makers who prefer to deny technical reality. Brian