Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Sure, unless you want a standardized interface that everyone can reliably implement. Once it's in the RFC, people can start implementing it, but if you implement before there's a published standard then you're stuck with a broken implementation, or you break backwards-compatibility.



So you'd prefer Firefox hadn't implemented public key pinning? Because it's not in the RFC either.


It wouldn't be the first RFC to begin life as an implementation instead of a spec document.


Which is the right way for an RFC to begin!




Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: