Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino writes:
>       again, it is about rather serious security problem, which risked
>       the DNS root name servers.  it's quite serious and really urgent.
>       the RFC publication should have finished way earlier.

Of course security problems are important.  However, fixing them in
the field is _never_ dependent on publishing an RFC, because the RFCs
themselves are not executable.

If there really are vendors that are failing to fix security problems
because they want to see an RFC published first, then I'd suggest
either taking that up directly with those vendors or simply choosing
not to buy their products.

I think that dismissing concerns about coherence and direction in the
RFCs because of a desire to rush publication is short-sighted at best.

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