Re: [apps-discuss] For consideration as an appsawg document: draft-hoffman-server-has-tls-03.txt

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 27 January 2011 18:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] For consideration as an appsawg document: draft-hoffman-server-has-tls-03.txt
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I agree that this document is appropriate for the appsawg.

On 1/24/11 7:35 PM, Barry Leiba wrote:
> Jiankang, Alexey, and I have discussed this, and we think the document
> (see below) is appropriate for the appsawg to adopt, review, and
> discuss.  I would like to hear, as soon as possible and in any case by
> 4 Feb, any objections to adoption of the document by appsawg.  I am
> also asking participants here to please review the document and begin
> discussion on this mailing list.
> 
> Barry, as appsawg chair
> 
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:
>> Greetings again. I would like this WG to consider adopting the following
>> draft as a WG item. It is definitely apps-related, and there is no other
>> appropriate WG in the Applications or Security areas for it. It has been
>> discussed in the websec WG, but that WG is limited to HTTP only (and this
>> document covers TLS for all application protocols).
>>
>> FWIW, some of the topics in this draft are quite open for active discussion.
>> The discussion in websec brought up some interesting issues, but they got
>> discussed in the HTTP context only, and this WG would be a better place to
>> discuss them for all server protocols.
>>
>> --Paul Hoffman
>>
>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>> directories.
>>
>>        Title           : Specifying That a Server Supports TLS
>>        Author(s)       : P. Hoffman
>>        Filename        : draft-hoffman-server-has-tls-03.txt
>>        Pages           : 8
>>        Date            : 2011-01-16
>>
>> A server that hosts applications that can be run with or without TLS
>> may want to communicate with clients whether the server is hosting an
>> application only using TLS or also hosting the application without
>> TLS.  Many clients have a policy to try to set up a TLS session but
>> fall back to insecure if the TLS session cannot be set up.  If the
>> server can securely communicate whether or not it can fall back to
>> insecure tells such a client whether or not they should even try to
>> set up an insecure session with the server.  This document describes
>> the use cases for this type of communication and a secure method for
>> communicating that information.
>>
>> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoffman-server-has-tls-03.txt