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Re: [TLS] call for consensus: changes to IANA registry rules for cipher suites

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 31 March 2016 15:49 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl>, Sean Turner <sean@sn3rd.com>
Thread-Topic: [TLS] call for consensus: changes to IANA registry rules for cipher suites
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Subject: Re: [TLS] call for consensus: changes to IANA registry rules for cipher suites
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> A black/white
> distinction will probably lead to a lot of discussion, and different
> implementation purposes could call for more subtlety.

I strongly thing it's the exact opposite.  A simple "yes an IETF WG came to consensus on this" is much simpler than trying to debate various shades of grey.  Or gray.  (See what I mean?:)

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