[Cryptography] IETF discussion on new ECC curves.

[Stephen Farrell]

Watson,

On 10/08/14 18:55, Watson Ladd wrote:
> Have you ever sat down, examined the output of WGs, and tried to go
> back from that to the process that produced them? 

No. OTOH, I have been through the process a number of times.
Coming to things fresh and having experience both have their
pros and cons.

> It's pretty clear
> that IETF WGs lead in a lot of cases to very poor designs, for a
> number of sociological reasons similar to those inherent in design by
> committee. 

Well, feel free to propose a better way to do things at the
scale at which the IETF works. Off this list is probably
better for that if its IETF specific. I really would be
interested in ways to improve things.

I've seen your point about things designed by one person
(or small teams) and it has some validity but is by no means
a panacea.

S.