Re: draft-ietf-smime-idea

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx>]

At 03:14 PM 2/24/00 -0500, Russ Housley wrote:
> Take a look at the cipher suite definitions associated with TLS.  Only one 
> cipher suite is mandatory to implement, but all of the cipher suite 
> documents are on standards track.

If Johnny jumped off a bridge, would you do it? :-) Other WGs are putting 
things like this on standards track; I don't think that is necessarily a 
good idea. This can probably be deferred until you talk with the ADs about 
what they think.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium