On Jun 30, 2015, at 8:16 PM, Melinda Shore <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/30/15 6:51 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
>> I actually also do not really understand the decision, other than the
>> authors seeing a hot potato. I still believe it would be in the interest
>> of both the OPENPGPKEY and the SMIMEA drafts that they continue to
>> discuss and attempt to use the same lookup mechanism.
>> iI suspect many software implementors that will implement one, will
>> also implement the other. Since it is mostly a different format for the
>> same idea, attempt to encrypt emails when a public key is advertised.
> 
> Yes, to all of this.  I really don't understand the reasoning
> behind this decision, mostly because the only explanation given
> has been pretty perfunctory.  Surely a better option right now
> would be to find additional editors.

We have plenty of willing editors: what we need is WG interest in reviewing 
(not just in asking for us to finish regardless of the open issues). The open 
issue in draft-ietf-dane-smime heavily overlap with those in 
draft-ietf-dane-openpgpkey, but only a very small number of people have chimed 
in on the recent threads.

Without sufficient review, there is a good chance that the protocol will be 
heavily flawed.

Note that the current issues are not the only ones for draft-ietf-dane-smime. 
Eric Osterweil brought up many proposals earlier that died because no one even 
commented on them. WG consensus by silence is a good sign that not enough 
people care about getting the protocol right.

--Paul Hoffman
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