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> On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:12:26PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >
> > There was no WG because there was insufficient consensus on just what the
> > working group was supposed to do.
> >
> Was there insufficient consensus because only few people discussed the
> topic on a "secret" mailing list?
> Anyway. Opening or creating the mailinglist could help us to identify
> the subject of the of a possible working group.
>
> /alex pilger
>
>
It was an open mailing list. The problem was that there were very many
different ideas on what a VPN group should do. To give just one example, is
the technology -- l2tp, ipsec, even frame relay -- a signficant differentiator
between different styles of VPN? Should the group assume one type and ignore
the others? Should it focus only on attributes that are common to all of them?
That's what I meant by "insufficient consensus".
--Steve Bellovin
