[TLS] Adoption call for TLS 1.2 Update for Long-term Support

[Sean Turner <[e-mail]>]

REQUEST: Let’s not rehash all the context.  It is provided for those who might not remember or those that were not around for the duration.

CONTEXT: Way back in 2016 after the WG had embarked on developing TLS 1.3, Peter Gutmann suggested that another way to “fix” TLS was to specify a version of TLS that indicates a “known-good config drawn from the maybe 10 extension-RFCs”; see [0].  Peter submitted his “TLS 1.2 Update for Long-term Support”; see [1]. There was some list discussion; see [2]. Peter asked us about adopting the I-D; see [3]. He made changes based on that feedback; see [4]. At IETF 98, the WG discussed adopting this I-D and the sense of the room was to not adopt the I-D; see [5]. Progress on this document was paused while the WG worked on TLS 1.3. Once RFC 8447 was published, a code point was assigned for the “tls-lts” extensions; see [6] and [7]. Now that we are looking to publish Feature Freeze for TLS 1.2 [8][9] we want to make sure that the working group sentiment has not changed over time so we are running an adoption call for TLS-LTS. 

MESSAGE: This message is to judge consensus on whether there is support to adopt TLS 1.2 Update for Long-term Support; see [1].  If you support adoption and are willing to review and contribute text, please send a message to the list.  If you do not support adoption of this draft, please send a message to the list and indicate why.  This call will close on November X, 2024. 

Thanks,
spt

[0] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/Lr7VwcPCjzDJelUTRTIUJf_8-ww/ 
[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gutmann-tls-lts/ 
[2] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/r4w75rooy-r8Ky-xXAUoslYTL_U/ 
[3] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/6tBftKBmxYz_wUcq79_zH8yDTQk/ 
[4] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/aw9BOS4HJ9uum0snEZqSuKA4BYw/
[5] https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/98/materials/minutes-98-tls-00 
[6] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls-reg-review/bP84S3tHSG9gAmc45CLTjpiA0z8/
[7] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/xmhnVQTckDmUkoxhx4wx1bfpYXM/ 
   Thanks to Peter because he helped us iron out the
   wrinkles in the tls-reg-review process.
[8] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-tls12-frozen/ 
[9] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/f62yvLL_4mDEsRzAY46L4QLjakU/