On Jul 8, 2014, at 11:06 AM, James Cloos <[email protected]> wrote:
> If those doing IP over Amateur Radio are a use case, they require NULL.

If Amateur Radio's prohibition on encryption is considered to be important in 
making decisions about crypto in protocols, then I think we are in a situation 
where we can't have crypto protocols that don't disallow downgrade attacks, 
because implementations always have to be willing to downgrade to no encryption 
if the other endpoint is an Amateur Radio station.

So, by reductio ad absurdum, I claim that this isn't something the working 
group should consider as a deciding factor.   I think the same observation also 
applies to Michael's comment about debugging on stacks with limited trace 
capability.   If you need to disable encryption, you should have to do 
something fairly extraordinary to make that happen.

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