Re: Question and note

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx>]

At 05:16 AM 6/29/98 -0400, dontspam-tzeruch@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Because all these terms have no meaning to the end user, and probably not
>to many of the implementors.

Well, end users won't be seeing this stuff if the implementors do it right.
If the implementors don't understand the terms, we're in deep trouble.

Jon: you don't have a reference to RFC 2119 in this document, which seems
to be the basis for the misunderstanding. Please put an explicit pointer to
RFC 2119 in section 1.1 and a reference to it in section 16. Also, someone
should do a scan of the document for the RFC 2119 words and make sure that
is what we mean.

Now, can we stop the name-calling and move forwards? Ad hominem attacks,
while terribly popular in the security industry, don't help us finish the
work of getting out standards.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium