Well, "most people [in the world" do not care about any documents the IETF puts out. I am not sure what population of people you are actually trying to make a statement about.
I am not confident that adding this column will actually have a useful impact, but I think the experiment is worth performing. -Ben On 03/31/2016 12:08 PM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: > In essence you are saying that most people are not going to care about > the Y/N in the IANA table anyway. Somewhat similar to people not > understanding the difference between the different types of RFCs. > > That sounds pragmatic. > > Ciao > Hannes > > On 03/31/2016 06:52 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: >> On 03/31/2016 11:20 AM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: >>> Hi Ben, >>> >>> just think about the mentioned JPAKE extension: what type of deployment >>> can you expect? It is something that Thread decided to use. Will Thread, >>> as a mesh networking technology, be successful and widely be deployed? >>> We don't know yet but if it becomes a technology of choice for use with >>> IEEE 802.15.4 then it will be fairly widely used in the IoT sector. I am >>> sure the authors of the Thread specifications (and the members of the >>> Thread consortium) expect their stuff to be widely used (in IoT -- not >>> on the Web). >> Well, for JPAKE in particular, my thoughts focus on my perception that >> PAKE of any form is not really central to what TLS does. Given that, I >> personally would not advocate for a 'Y' for it, even knowing that it >> might see wide use in IoT. >> >>> Is this something that is good enough for this group? Web guys will >>> hardly care about it. A large part of the TLS group is focused on the >>> Web use only (at least that's my impression). >>> >>> From the descriptions provided by Sean I don't know whether this is >>> something that would be a "Y" blessing or not. This is what I call >>> "sounds nice but ...". >>> >> Well, I would expect the authors to put the 'Y' in their IANA >> considerations text and see if anyone complained during the last calls. >> I further expect that some of the web-centric folks on this list would >> complain and probably get the 'Y' removed, but I am not seeing why this >> is problematic. >> >> -Ben >> _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list TLS@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls
