Re: [TLS] TLS Charter Revision

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 12 December 2013 15:22 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Marsh Ray <maray@microsoft.com>, Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com>, "Joseph Salowey (jsalowey)" <jsalowey@cisco.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:22:30 -0500
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I agree with Marsh that PFS should be included.

I am concerned about the 'political' emphasis on reducing round trips. One of the arguments heard I hear against 'https everywhere' is that the extra round-trips' cause too much latency and impact customer's web experience. If we can work to reduce RTT without sacrificing security, then that's great and I would like to see "while maintaining security features" or some such added.

I would like to add a bullet that says backward compatibility with previous  versions is not a requirement. Given all that downgrade fallback issues that continually arise here, we should strongly consider if the right thing to do is just break the chain.

	/r$

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