[saag] Re: wpkops, "WebPKI" and citations

On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM Michael Richardson
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Peter Gutmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>     >> We often need to talk about this, and I don't think we have a good
>     >> definition/reference that we can cite.
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>     > What's wrong with Justice Potter Stewart's definition, who famously said:
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> Sure.  Show me the bibtex or the kramdown entry for my I-D.

I don't get why citation is necessary here. Surely if we are all
familiar with it, or understand what it means, we need less of a
citation.
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>     > Seriously.  No matter how you try and define it, the minute it's cast in stone
>     > people will come up with a dozen additional cases that it doesn't cover, and a
>     > dozen cases that it appears to cover but shouldn't.
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> Yes, you are right.
> But, like Rich wrote, we know it when we see it.
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>            Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide
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