docno="lists-034-10069772"
name="Tom Stephens"
email="tomste@microsoft.com"
sent="Sun, 21 Apr 1996 23:08:33 -0700"
subject="RE: Merged Transport Layer Protocol Development"
To: "'Holger.Reif@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE'"<Holger.Reif@prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de>
    Cc: "'tls-draft@w3.org'" <tls-draft@w3.org>



     
   
No, there will not be two standards.  Microsoft and Netscape are working
with the IETF to create one IETF standard which both companies can
support.

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>Sent:  Sunday, April 21, 1996 11:02 PM
>To:    Tom Stephens
>Cc:    tls-draft@w3.org
>Subject:       RE: Merged Transport Layer Protocol Development


>> strawman document is not an official IETF document.  Win Treese,
>> Microsoft and Netscape did not want this document to be confused in any
>> way with the actual spec that is being developed by the working group.

>I'm yet to read the document in detail but this sounds like we are
>going to
>have a IETF-Standard and an a separate NS/MS standard ???

>This is not a good thing.


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