> Il 01/01/2021 19:42 Stephen Farrell <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>
>
> Hiya,
>
> On 01/01/2021 17:58, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> > The WG has already adopted the revised GOST document as a WG item;
> > what you are proposing (if the current use is negligible) would be in
> > the opposite direction.
> I wasn't "proposing" that, just posing it as a possible
> option that might or might not be sensible to consider
> depending on the facts relating to usage if/when we can
> get 'em. Absent usage information, I'm not at all sure
> whether or not any change from the status quo is warranted.
We could ask the proponents of new algorithms for information on current or
expected usage. However, if adoption is relevant to any kind of decision on
what to do with an algorithm proposal, this should better be formalized
somewhere and applied evenly to all algorithms that may appear in the future.
Personally, I think that some expectation of adoption would be useful not to
clutter the list of algorithms, but the threshold should be quite low.
Also, as the IETF is the global SDO for DNS, it should make sure to encompass
the needs of all Internet communities around the world. If a local community
wants or needs for any reason to use a "globally non-standard" algorithm, there
should be ways for this to happen without asking them to prove adoption of that
algorithm on a global scale. Eric's points on fragmentation, implementation
burden, potential incompatibilities are valid, but they should play out at
usage level, not at the standardization one. We should just make it clear to
proponents that adopting a rare algorithm may make them incompatible with the
rest of the planet, but whether this is acceptable or not is up to them - and
they may even not have a choice, due to non-technical factors which won't be
affected by whether we recognize the algorithm or not. In this regard, having
an intermediate "supported but not globally recommended" classification level,
with lower procedural barriers, seems like a useful thing to me.
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