++1, Rich.

Furthermore, it's fairly clueless.  Anyone seeking
a secure universe isn't going to find it in this one.
Any given instantiation of anything has n to the nth
vulnerabilities waiting to be discovered and exploited
by someone.  Governments are among the lesser of
the threat actors.

Most of the real world has moved to risk management
conceptualizations - as is pretty obvious on this list.
Along those lines, is the new NIST SP800-53 Rev. 4
useful, and shouldn't the discussion be shifted in that
direction?

--tony



On 10/10/2013 10:36 AM, Richard Shockey wrote:
Personally I find IETF discussions of Government behavior distasteful.
Frankly we have met the enemy and it is us.  The IETF ended up designing
security protocols that are very very difficult to deploy at scale.

E-Mail encryption is the obvious problem.  Oh gee I'm really going to turn
that on if it ends up defeating the anti-spam measures.  Good luck with
that.

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