It seems to me that
several people who are arguing to kill = ae essentially aguing that it has the
same semantics that I beleive are the strongest that can be attached to x= and
conclude that these semantics are not suficient to justify inclusion. Others
argue that the semantics are ambiguous and it should go which is not so far from
saying the semantics are clear, just different to the ones
presented.
I suggest then that
we take a quaker poll type approach and put in the full range of options rather
than require people to commit now to a yes/no vote. The range of options I see
is:
1) Keep x=, signers
should be able to limit the time period in which the accept
resonsibility
2) Keep x=, signers
should be able to state in the signature that they won't support the key
retrieval indefinitely.
3) Delete x=, the
semantics are ambiguous, people think of it as message revocation, they should
not
4) Delete x=,
signers can state the key support interval in SSP
5) Delete x=, time
in seconds since 1970s invites 32 bit Y2K type issues
6) Other
reasons
My prefered options
are 2 and 4 equally. I reject 1. I can live with 3 or
5.
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