Re: [TLS] Adoption call for TLS Flag - Request mTLS

[Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 10:36 PM Watson Ladd <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024, 5:08 PM Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> Adoption should not be required to register a code point [0], as the
>> policy is Specification Required.
>>
>> I'm mildly negative on adopting this document. What is the reason we need
>> to spend WG time on this, rather than just having a code point assignment?
>>
>
> Well, don't we want to say how this is supposed to work somewhere?
>

Why? The attitude I am trying to get away from is that the TLS WG has to
be involved in every extension to TLS. Rather, we should decide what things
are important and spend time on them and then let others extend TLS
independently
in areas we don't think are important.

-Ekr


> I doubt this will take much time.
>
>>
>> -Ekr
>>
>> [0] As an aside the IANA considerations of draft-ietf-tls-tlsflags-13
>> should clearly have
>> a policy which matches 8447 S 7, which is to say that an I-D is
>> sufficient.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 12:59 PM Christopher Patton <cpatton=
>> [e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to see this problem solved. There was some discussion about
>>> whether an I-D is needed or all we needed was to register a code point
>>> somewhere. If most agree that an I-D is needed, then let's adopt it. I'm
>>> happy to review.
>>>
>>> Chris P.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 12:22 PM Sean Turner <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> At the IETF 119 TLS session there was some interest in the mTLS Flag
>>>> I-D (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jhoyla-req-mtls-flag/);
>>>> also, see previous list discussions at [0]. This message is to judge
>>>> consensus on whether there is sufficient support to adopt this I-D.  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 I-D, please
>>>> send a message to the list and indicate why.  This call will close on 16
>>>> April 2024.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Deirdre, Joe, and Sean
>>>>
>>>> [0]
>>>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/9e2S95H9YgtHp5HhqdlNqmQP0_w/
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