Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-secsh-transport-18.txt

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%sun.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:33:57PM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> > Yup.  And for merely reserving the names the numbers (IANA) doc seems
> > best:
[...]
> > Just replace the reference to the transport I-D section 4.6 with
> > "[TBD]" and remove all references to undefined host key algs from the
> > transport I-D.
> 
> This is probably the best bet.
> 
> .. though I've heard rumors that some folks have indeed implemented
> this and may be using the code point already, in which case we may
> need to use a different name for the standard version..

Not if the standard matches those implementations, yes otherwise.

Either way, not an issue until someone steps up to actually spec the
x.509 and/or pgp host key algs.

Nico
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