[Chapter-delegates] IETF proposing sanctioned man-in-the-middle attacks

[Carlos M. Martinez]

Dear Elver,

The IETF is not proposing anything of the sort. The document your URL
seems to point to is an individual submission and currently not event a
working group draft. This means it doesn't carry any community consensus
so far.

Crazy I-Ds are submitted to the IETF all the time, but they can't reach
community consensus.

In this very list I think we should be more knowledgeable about how the
IETF works.

regards

~Carlos

On 2/24/14, 4:35 AM, Elver Loho wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just came across this post, which looks at IETF's recent proposal to
> lower privacy and security on the web:
> http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001076.html
>
> Does anyone know why on earth the IETF would propose something insane
> like this? Just a couple of months ago an IETF conference agreed to
> start making the internet a more secure and a more private place, in
> response to the Snowden papers. And now they publish this.
>
> What's the internal politics at IETF that would create such a thing?
>
> Best,
> Elver
>
> elver.loho at gmail.com
> +372 5661 6933
> skype: elver.loho
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