Re: S/MIME wins

["William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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In <199803061654.IAA23337@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 03/06/98 
   at 08:49 AM, Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx> said:

>>If that is the case, S/MIME by default could emerge as the dominant
>standard."

>And, if that is not the case, OpenPGP has the chance to "win". However,
>it will take more work than is being shown in this Working Group. It's
>been three months since the DC IETF meeting, but we haven't seen a second
>draft of the main spec or the first draft of the MIME integration spec.

>>From the discussion on this list, it looks like there are still thorny
>issues left in the main draft. The only way to for OpenPGP to finish is
>for it to keep going.

Well who is working on these drafts? where are they? And what needs to be
done to get them finished??

I started making phone calls yesterday trying to find out the status of
things but could not reach anyone. I have a lot of time and effort tied up
in this too see it get pissed away before the race even gets started.


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