Re: DRAFT minutes, SACRED WG, Minneapolis IETF

[John W Noerenberg II <jwn2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 3:32 PM -0500 3/26/01, Radia Perlman - Boston Center for Networking wrote:
> It would be nice to at least come up with a single MUST implement, as
> well as a bunch of other choices, should the MUST alg wind up 
> cryptographically
> broken or with someone showing they have a patent on arithmetic which
> covers it.

It's not a matter of, "it would be nice" (although I think you're 
just being generous, Radia <grin>).  Without mandatory algorithms, 
there is no guarantee of interoperability.

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