Re: [TLS] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-tls-tls13-24

Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org> Fri, 06 April 2018 03:20 UTC

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> On Apr 1, 2018, at 10:37 AM, Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> wrote:
> 
>>   Possibly, if you consider being able to say "Invalid length encoding in
>    preferred-ECC-curves extension" in Tswana is mission-critical to debugging a
>    TLS handshake failure.
> 
> I so love your messages, Peter.  Honestly I do.
> 
> Perhaps not Tswana, but perhaps China may care to pick a counter-example.

For debugging messages, I'm with Peter, they'll only be implemented if they're
simple enough to support.  I can't see having to have localization files on the
server for debug messages that might be requested by a client is some other locale
and only when debug is enabled, and the consumer is a developer and not an end-user.

-- 
	Viktor.