Re: [TLS] WGLC for draft-ietf-tls-ticketrequests

Benjamin Kaduk <bkaduk@akamai.com> Thu, 21 November 2019 07:29 UTC

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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 23:29:08 -0800
From: Benjamin Kaduk <bkaduk@akamai.com>
To: Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
Cc: David Schinazi <dschinazi.ietf@gmail.com>, "TLS@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] WGLC for draft-ietf-tls-ticketrequests
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:59:32PM -0800, Rob Sayre wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:54 PM Benjamin Kaduk <bkaduk@akamai.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:35:09PM -0800, Rob Sayre wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:25 PM David Schinazi <
> > dschinazi.ietf@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > The SHOULD from (2) is indeed not required for interoperability, but
> > > > important
> > > > to ensure servers put this protection in place.
> > > >
> > >
> > > In that case, this issue belongs in the Security Considerations section.
> > I
> > > understand that the concern is valid, but a "SHOULD" in this part of the
> > > document is not the right way to communicate it.
> >
> > Is it more of a security consideration or an operational one?
> >
> 
> Since it was referred to as a "protection", I thought it was a DoS concern.
> 
> If it's only implementation advice, that's also valid, but it doesn't call
> for 2119 SHOULD language. The document should explain the operational
> concern without using "SHOULD".

I disagree with your premise on when BCP 14 keyword usage is appropriate.
Which is to say, I think the "SHOULD" is fine for operational concerns.

-Ben