[Acme] Challenge names in final RFC

Jacob Hoffman-Andrews <jsha@eff.org> Mon, 13 March 2017 18:26 UTC

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Subject: [Acme] Challenge names in final RFC
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Roland posted a PR tweaking the challenge names for the final RFC:
https://github.com/ietf-wg-acme/acme/pull/272.

This raised the question: What do we want the challenge names to be in
the final RFC? I think we've been assuming that "http-01" would become
"http" once the RFC is published. However, this does create a slightly
deployment headache, in that draft-compatible implementations have to
use one name, and RFC-compatible implementations have to use another, so
it's hard to test working code with the final names before the RFC is
really finalized.

I don't have a strong opinion on this one way or another. What do folks
on this list think?