[Python-Dev] Request for pronouncement on PEP 493 (HTTPS verification backport guidance)

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:05:53 +0000, Paul Moore writes:
>Simply adding "people who have no control over their broken
>infrastructure" with a note that this PEP helps them, would be
>sufficient here (and actually helps the case for the PEP, so why not?
>;-))

But does it help them?  Or does it increase the power of those who
hand out certificates and who are intensely security conscious over
those who would like to get some work done this afternoon?

Laura