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Re: once more, with feeling.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cat Okita)
Tue Sep 9 09:12:30 2008

Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:31:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Cat Okita <cat@reptiles.org>
Reply-To: Cat Okita <cat@reptiles.org>
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
cc: Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat@Sun.COM>, 
    "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20080908190232.GA11284@homeport.org>

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Adam Shostack wrote:
> What makes now the perfect time to address an issue which has been
> present for quite soem time?

I'd turn that question around, and ask what makes now such a bad time to
address an issue that's been present (and not addressed) for quite some
time... ?

Surely the recent DNS fiasco was enough of an illustration of the merits
of not worrying about something that's been a well known issue for ages...

cheers!
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