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Re: [dane] Last Call: <draft-ietf-dane-protocol-19.txt> (The DNS-Based

Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> Fri, 13 April 2012 03:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dane] Last Call: <draft-ietf-dane-protocol-19.txt> (The DNS-Based
To: ned+ietf@mauve.mrochek.com
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:59:47 +0200
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ned+ietf@mauve.mrochek.com wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> In Section 1.2:
>>>
>>> "This document applies to both TLS [RFC5246]"
>>>
>>> Does this mean that DANE is not applicable for TLS 1.1?
>> 
>> RFC4346 (TLS 1.1) has been obsoleted by RFC5246.  We cannot make references
>> to obsoleted documents.  As a side note, we don't say "to both TLS 1.2", but
>> just TLS.
> 
> I have no involvement with DANE or the rest of this debate, but I wanted to
> point out that this simply isn't true. IDNits warnings to the contrary
> notwithstanding, references to obsoleted specifications are not only allowed,
> but in some cases absolutely required. 


Since the question keeps coming up again and again and again...

I firmly believe all three Obsoletion markers in the meta-data
of rfc5246 to be factually incorrect, so I filed an errata for this.

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg08595.html

-Martin

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