[noise] Document status, process, and governance

Trevor Perrin trevp at trevp.net
Mon Nov 13 08:39:36 PST 2017


On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Alex <alex at centromere.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 06:58:52 +0000
> Trevor Perrin <trevp at trevp.net> wrote:
>
>> In terms of current documents:
>>  - The Noise spec would be "official/stable".
>>  - NoiseSocket is probably close to "official/unstable"
>>  - Our other docs (Rhys's hybrid forward secrecy; David's disco) would
>> be "unofficial/unstable".
>>
>
> Would you consider the test vector format to be its own document?

Sorry, forgot about that.  Yes, I think that is being widely
implemented by libraries, so it would be helpful to have it in the
spectools/spectemplate document format, and work towards making it an
official/stable specification (assuming people agree with all this
process stuff).

Trevor


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