> Ok. The motivation for this draft is indeed he increasing deployment > and coverage of encryption down the stack, which we take as a given. A > few sentences to make this context clear could be useful. i kind of liked just saying that strong encryption is becoming ubiquitous, is here to stay, and the ietf thinks that is a good thing. this has consequences for applications and middleboxes that have grown used to being able to see the traffic in cleartext. > The whole point of this line of work is to define a solution space for > the (technical) problems that arise when “strong encryption is here to > stay” for some of the consequences, there is no "solution." this may not be a bug. randy