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Re: [Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salz, Rich)
Mon Sep 30 18:35:17 2013
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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: ianG <iang@iang.org>, "cryptography@metzdowd.com"
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:22:29 -0400
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> Experience suggests that asking a standards committee to do the encoding format is a disaster.
That's over-stating it. Sub-optimal, perhaps.
> Why can't we just designate some big player to do it, and follow suit?
Okay that data encoding scheme from Google protobufs or Facebook thrift. Done.
/r$
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