Re: [TLS] RFC4492bis - Rename the "Supported Elliptic Curves" extension

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> Wed, 14 January 2015 17:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] RFC4492bis - Rename the "Supported Elliptic Curves" extension
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On Wed 2015-01-14 11:32:08 -0500, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> This seems like a good idea to me. Alternatively, we could have a separate
> draft that *just* did the rename and then just update 4492bis as we already
> have TLS 1.3.

Do folks think that the separate draft to do the extension rename is
useful?  It seems a bit process-heavy to me, but i'm not an IETF process
expert either.

       --dkg