Re: ECC in OpenPGP ready to be submitted to IETF

["David Crick" <dacrick@xxxxxxxxx>]

>  ... or so it seems.

I saw the subject and my initial thought was "whoa, seems
a bit hasty!"

Believe me, I'm all in favour of getting ECC into OpenPGP
ASAP, but the above was my initial reaction.

>  I think there is rough consensus (or the lack of strong disagreement, if
> you prefer) on the scope of the draft, how it fits into RFC 4880, and
> expectations about interoperability arising from the use of ECC keys.

If you put it that way, then I suppose it could be "ready."

I do kind of feel discussions tailed off once we'd run out of
stream - or at least, once all the arguments (er, viewpoints ;))
had been voiced _ad nauseam_.

>  I plan to summit the document in a few days as an OpenPGP WG item to IETF.

I take it there's still "scope" for revision/refinement after that?

(I seem to recall 2440bis took an awful long time to go round
this bit, if it's that stage you're referring to.)

>  I updated http://brainhub.googlepages.com/pgp , I hope I haven't overlooked
> anything substantial.

I diff'ed ietf-00 with your pre-9 and didn't see anything major...

>  Thank you.

...except this!:

|   The author would like to acknowledge the help of many individuals
|   who kindly voiced their opinions on IETF OpenPGP Working Group
|   mailing list and, in particular the help of David Crick. [to be
|   continued]

I hope this is merely an accolade for "loudest objector"!! and
I do hope that "[to be continued]" signifies the adding of other
people in due course.

I've still on my "to do" list the "clarity/brevity/structure" polishing
that I said I felt could still be achieved.  If I manage to get around
to having a stab at that, I think I'd feel more comfortable/justified
in having my name mentioned!  But thank you for the gesture.