> -----Original Message-----
> From: Göran Selander [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 12:55 PM
> To: Jim Schaad <[email protected]>
> Cc: Stephen Farrell <[email protected]>; Justin Richer 
> <[email protected]>;
> [email protected]; [email protected]; The IESG <[email protected]>;
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [COSE] Stephen Farrell's Discuss on draft-ietf-cose-msg-20: (with
> DISCUSS and COMMENT)
> 
> 
> 
> > On 2 nov. 2016, at 18:11, Jim Schaad <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Stephen Farrell [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 2:16 PM
> >> To: Jim Schaad <[email protected]>; 'Justin Richer' <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; 'The IESG' <[email protected]>; draft-
> ietf-
> >> [email protected]
> >> Subject: Re: Stephen Farrell's Discuss on draft-ietf-cose-msg-20: (with
> DISCUSS
> >> and COMMENT)
> >>
> >>
> >> Hiya,
> >>
> >>> On 01/11/16 19:17, Jim Schaad wrote:
> >>> Another thread dealing with this issue includes
> >>> https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cose/current/msg00981.html  -
> >>> basically the subject is 'make "alg" field optional'
> >>>
> >>> Usual suspects (Göran, Ludwig, Francesca) on one side, me and a
> >>> couple of others on the other side.  Interestingly the antis included
> >>> Mike who argued for this in the JOSE.
> >>
> >> Heh. To be honest, I'm not sure what's best here. Normally if
> >> it were just my design tastes against the WGs, I'd happily
> >> fold. But in this case we have an appendix that says how to
> >> not do what's a MUST in the body of the spec. And I suspect
> >> that this could damage interop depending on whether or not
> >> libraries follow the MUST or not.
> >>
> >> Do we think there's a way to square this circle and somehow
> >> get rid of the appendix to get to a result folks can all use?
> >
> > I wish I knew.  The fact that the CORE draft is not even complying with how
> the appendix is saying to do things almost leads me to think that we should 
> just
> kill that section of the appendix and re-evaluate things.

I may have misinterpreted what Göran said and this may not be the case.

Jim

> 
> I'd like to understand what is the problem with how it is specified in the  
> CORE
> draft, if it is a problem. If it isn't, then either stop mandating alg + 
> remove app A,
> or change Appendix A so that this case isn't discouraged.
> 
> Göran


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