Tijl Houtbeckers wrote:
Of course we can say: ah well, who cares wether you can call something XMPP compliant or not. But I think the fact this discussion was started after what ralphm said, shows how unreasonable this kind of language in the RFC is.
Some of that stuff is in there to make the security mafia happy, which you have to do in order to get published as an RFC (it's called "cross-area review"). That was part of the trade-off of standardization through the IETF.
Also, must-implement is different from must-deploy. And as noted, we can attempt to fix this stuff in rfc3920bis. Peter
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
