[Cryptography] best practices considered bad term

[Randy Bush]

> Can we get the IETF to look at this, too?  Their huge & lengthy
> committees have not as yet realised that they are tiny and
> inconsequential compared to the vast masses of developers out there
> that have to actually build their impressively weighty designs, and
> make them fly.

i have been pushing this water uphill for twenty years, to little
avail.  careers are built on featuritis.

was it carh who saif that there are two kinds of standards, one the
union of all the features everyone wants and the other the intersection
of those features that everyone must have?

randy