RE: Stream0 Design Team Proposal

[Mike Bishop <[e-mail]>]

I also think these two pieces are not inextricably bound together:

  *   Moving from Stream 0 to CRYPTO frames
  *   Removing the TLS record layer and using the TLS keys directly in QUIC packet protection

…though both of these interact pretty closely with the separate packet number spaces.



So I think that’s roughly six PRs we should expect to see out of the design team’s proposal.  A few of them have dependencies on each other, but they seem mostly separable.  It sounds like several of them have consensus in the design team, but not all of them, and it would be good to be able to discuss them separately.



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To: Ian Swett <ianswett=[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Stream0 Design Team Proposal



First of all, thanks to the design team for the work they have done.  I haven't digested everything yet, but I think that I have a good sense of the shape of the proposal.



Overall, this looks like a workable design.  It's a lot more invasive of the cryptographic handshake implementation than I had thought people were willing to stomach originally.  But it's clear that we've run into problems with the current, more abstract API and this is a fairly natural way to split TLS.  I've spent a little time thinking about how this might be implemented and I think that it's not going to be *too* painful.  The proof will be in the pudding there though.



In looking at the PR, I really appreciate seeing all the changes together.

BTW, the link above points to the wrong PR, so be careful (it appears to have the same content, but that's not guaranteed).  The actual PR is here:

https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/pull/1377



I've pushed a branch to the main repo so that you can preview the entire document set: https://quicwg.github.io/base-drafts/stream0/



It seems like there are some core changes here and a bunch of separable or at least secondary changes.  I'm sure that each one has its own justification, but that isn't always clear. The following changes seem like they are separable:



* The use of separate packet number spaces

* The Retry packet changes (and NEW_TOKEN)

* EMPTY_ACK

* The TLS extension for flow control



Right now, some of these appear to be entirely gratuitous.  I'd like to get to the bottom of each before we continue.



At a minimum, the PR we land first should include just the core changes.

As you say, reviewing a monster PR like this will only make GitHub weep unicorns, but we might be able to cut this into smaller pieces.



On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:31 AM Ian Swett <ianswett= [e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:



> Dear QUIC WG,





> On behalf of the Stream 0 Design Team, I am pleased to report that we

have consensus on a proposed approach to share with the WG. The DT's proposal will make QUIC and TLS work closer together and incorporates ideas from DTLS, but it does not use the DTLS protocol itself.





> The DT believes this solves the important open Stream 0 issues. The

proposal will be a bit more invasive in TLS, but we believe it is the right long-term direction and several TLS stacks (BoringSSL, PicoTLS, NSS, and

Mint) are willing and able to do the work necessary.. A number of stacks are currently working on implementations of this new approach, which we hope to have in time for the Interim meeting.





> A design document describing the overall approach can be found at:





https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fRsJqPinJl8N3b-bflDRV6auojfJLkxddT93j6SwHY8/edit





> A PR making the changes to the QUIC documents can be found at:



> https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/pull/1377





> A few design details did not have clear consensus, but it was felt it

would be better to discuss those in the wider WG than delay the design team.  A consistent choice was made in the PR and these issues are mentioned in Appendix B of the design doc.





> As always, comments and questions welcome. That said, this is a big PR

and we recognize that some editorial work is going to be needed before merging. In the interest of letting people follow along, and to keep github from falling over, we ask people to keep discussion on the mailing list and refrain from making PR comments.





> See you in Kista!





> Ian and Eric