IETF, Twitter and Security (Was: Re: [governance] Warning : Twitter Hack)

Andrea Glorioso andrea at digitalpolicy.it
Fri May 25 09:33:39 EDT 2012


On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:29 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Andrea Glorioso
> <andrea at digitalpolicy.it> wrote:
>> McTim,
>>
>> So, would the world be that off the mark by thinking that security
>> problems such as those that happened to Bertrand and you (and to me as
>> well some days ago, by the way) are something for the IETF to think
>> about?
>
> IMHO, yes.  the IETF has enough to do with trying to create protocol
> security on lower layers.  This is many layers above that.

Then perhaps the BCP containing the mission statement of the IETF
should be amended to make it a bit less bold than it currently is.

Best,

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