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

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[e-mail]>]

On Tue 2016-03-29 21:53:13 -0400, Sean Turner wrote:
> 1. The IANA registry rules for the TLS cipher suite registry [1] will be changed to specification required.
>
> 2. A new “IETF Recommended” column will be added with two values: “Y” or “N”.  Y and N have the following meaning:
>
>  Cipher suites marked with a “Y” the IETF has consensus on
>  and are reasonably expected to be supported by widely
>  used implementations such as open-source libraries.  The
>  IETF takes no position on the cipher suites marked with an
>  “N”.  Not IETF recommended does not necessarily (but can)
>  mean that the ciphers are not cryptographically sound (i.e.,
>  are bad).  Cipher suites can be recategorized from N to Y
>  (e.g., Curve448) and vice versa.
>
> 3. We will add a “Note" to the IANA registry itself (i.e., on [0]) that matches the above so that the same information is available to those who don’t read the IANA considerations section of the RFC.
>
> Please indicate whether or not you could support this plan.

I support this plan.

  --dkg