On Oct 19, 2017, at 1:12 PM, Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL <u...@ll.mit.edu> wrote: > If those middleboxes already have sufficient alternative options, why do we > spend time discussing this draft? Why do we need to add yet another > alternative for them?
Indeed, if this proposal were equivalent to CA forcing, then the solution to the problem this proposal purports to solve would be CA forcing. The reason this proposal is preferred is that it's easier and less apparently invasive than CA forcing. Making less good crypto have an obviously less good UI is a good thing.
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